Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 19
"At rest" means dead; it is written on graves and in sympathy cards.
What happens: mean, write · To what, where: rest, person, graves
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: 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 | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 rest | case |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rest | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 written | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 written | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 written | aux:pass |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 graves | case |
| 12 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 written | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cards | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cards | case |
| 15 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cards | compound |
| 16 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 graves | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | mean | present | rest | dead property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | person | graves and sympathy cards | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on grave=Destination |
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:19.
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): R7-rel-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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