Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 22

"The late" before a name ("the late Mr Jones") means that the person is dead; it does not mean he came late.

Who acts: late, person, it, phrase · What happens: mean, be, not mean, come · 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 (late, person, it, phrase), 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	_	3 late	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 late	det
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct
5	before	before	ADP	_	16 means	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 late	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 Mr	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Mr	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mr	det
11	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Mr	amod
12	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 name	appos
13	Jones	Jones	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mr	flat
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Mr	punct
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 Mr	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 dead	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dead	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	cop
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 mean	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mean	nsubj
24	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mean	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 mean	advmod
26	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 means	parataxis
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 mean	ccomp
29	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 came	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the late		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the person	dead property	tree rules
3	not mean	present · do-support	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	phrase	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:22.

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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