Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 8
"Departed this life" means died; it is old-fashioned and found on old gravestones.
Who acts: Departed life, life · What happens: depart, mean, die, be, find · To what, where: old gravestones · 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 (Departed life, life), 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 Departed | punct |
| 2 | Departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 life | amod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 life | det |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 life | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 fashioned | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fashioned | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fashioned | cop |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fashioned | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 old | punct |
| 13 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 fashioned | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 gravestones | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gravestones | amod |
| 18 | gravestones | gravestone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obl |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | depart in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | this Departed life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | life | fashioned property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | participle | life not said here | old gravestones | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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:8.
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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