Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 19
"Lost her battle with cancer" means she died of cancer.
Who acts: English · What happens: lose, mean, die, battle · To what, where: battle · 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 (English), 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 Lost | punct |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 means | csubj |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 battle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lost | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cancer | case |
| 6 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 battle | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lost | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cancer | case |
| 12 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | lose in a quote | participle | English's battle | with cancer | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | English | of cancer | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cancer=Causer | ||||
| 4 | battle in a quote | English | with cancer | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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:19.
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 ×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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