Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 17
"Lost" in "she lost her husband" means her husband died; nothing was mislaid.
Who acts: grave, husband · What happens: lose, mean, die, mislay · To what, where: husband, nothing · 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 (grave, husband), 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 Lost | punct |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 means | csubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lost | punct |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 lost | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Lost | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | nsubj |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 mislaid | punct |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 mislaid | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mislaid | aux:pass |
| 18 | mislaid | mislay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 means | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | grave | grave's husband | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | die | past | grave's husband | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | mislay | past · passive | nothing | tree rules |
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:17.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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