Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 17
"Cashed in his chips" means died; it is American slang taken from card games.
Who acts: ghost · What happens: cash, mean, die, be, take · To what, where: chips, American slang, card games · 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 (ghost), 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 Cashed | punct |
| 2 | Cashed | cash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chips | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chips | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Cashed | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cashed | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 means | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 slang | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slang | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 slang | cop |
| 12 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slang | amod |
| 13 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | parataxis |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 slang | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 games | case |
| 16 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 games | compound |
| 17 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cash in a quote | participle | machine's chips | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | ghost | American slang | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | participle | American slang not said here | card games | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from game=Initial_Location |
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:17.
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 ×3. 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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