Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 9
"Kicked the bucket" means died; it is a joking, informal phrase.
Who acts: bucket · What happens: kick, mean, die, be · To what, where: bucket, joking informal 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 (bucket), 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 Kicked | punct |
| 2 | Kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bucket | det |
| 4 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kicked | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kicked | 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 | _ | 15 phrase | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 phrase | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 phrase | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 phrase | det |
| 12 | joking | joke | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 phrase | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 phrase | punct |
| 14 | informal | informal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 phrase | amod |
| 15 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick in a quote | past | the bucket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | 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 a | present | bucket | a joking informal phrase | tree rules |
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:9.
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. 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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