Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 20
"Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phrase is often used jokingly.
Who acts: Gone, maker · What happens: meet, mean, die, be, use · To what, where: maker, God, phrase · 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 (Gone, maker), 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 Gone | punct |
| 2 | Gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 meet | mark |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Gone | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 maker | nmod:poss |
| 6 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gone | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 means | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 maker | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 maker | nmod:poss |
| 13 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 God | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 maker | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 God | cop |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 used | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 used | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 phrase | det |
| 20 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 used | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 used | advmod |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 God | conj |
| 24 | jokingly | jokingly | ADV | _ | 23 used | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | 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 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Gone not said here | Shakespeare's maker | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maker=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Gone | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | Shakespeare's maker | God | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | use | present · passive | the phrase | jokingly, often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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