Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 23
"Laid to rest" means buried.
What happens: lay, rest, mean, bury · 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: 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 Laid | punct |
| 2 | Laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 rest | mark |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Laid | advcl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Laid | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | rest in a quote | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | bury not said to happen | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:23.
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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