Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 11
"Whacked" is American gangster slang for murdered.
What happens: whack, be, murder · To what, where: American gangster slang
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 Whacked | punct |
| 2 | Whacked | whack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slang | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whacked | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | cop |
| 5 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slang | amod |
| 6 | gangster | gangster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slang | compound |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 murdered | case |
| 9 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slang | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whack in a quote | participle | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | American gangster slang | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «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:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:11.
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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