Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 15
"Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly.
Who acts: dust · What happens: shuffle off, mean, die, come, use · To what, where: mortal coil, Hamlet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dust), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shuffled | punct |
| 2 | Shuffled | shuffle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 coil | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 coil | det |
| 5 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coil | amod |
| 6 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shuffled | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shuffled | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Hamlet | case |
| 14 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hamlet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Shakespeare | case |
| 16 | Hamlet | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 used | cc |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | aux:pass |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 comes | conj |
| 20 | jokingly | jokingly | ADV | _ | 19 used | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shuffle off in a quote | participle | this mortal coil | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coil=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | come | present | dust | Shakespeare's Hamlet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hamlet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | use | present · passive | dust not said here | jokingly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:15.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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