Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 12
"Sleeping with the fishes" is American gangster slang for murdered and dumped in water.
Who acts: Sleeping · What happens: sleep, be, murder, dump · To what, where: American gangster slang, water · 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 (Sleeping), 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 Sleeping | punct |
| 2 | Sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 slang | csubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fishes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fishes | det |
| 5 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Sleeping | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sleeping | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 slang | cop |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slang | amod |
| 9 | gangster | gangster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slang | compound |
| 10 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 murdered | mark |
| 12 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slang | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dumped | cc |
| 14 | dumped | dump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 murdered | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dumped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | gerund | with the fishes | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Sleeping | American gangster slang | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | murder | participle | American gangster slang not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dump | participle | water | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in water=Trajectory |
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:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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