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Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 20

"Succumbed to his injuries" means he died of his injuries; it is used in official reports and the news.

Who acts: machine · What happens: succumb, mean, die, use, injure · To what, where: battle, official reports · 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 (machine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

punctcsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjccompcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubj:passaux:passparataxiscaseamodoblccdetconjpunctroot"PUNCTSuccumbedVERBtoADPhisPRONinjuriesNOUN"PUNCTmeansVERBhePRONdiedVERBofADPhisPRONinjuriesNOUN;PUNCTitPRONisAUXusedVERBinADPofficialADJreportsNOUNandCCONJtheDETnewsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Succumbedpunct
2SuccumbedsuccumbVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 meanscsubj
3totoADP_5 injuriescase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 injuriesnmod:poss
5injuriesinjuryNOUNNumber=Plur2 Succumbedobl
6""PUNCT_2 Succumbedpunct
7meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 diednsubj
9dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 meansccomp
10ofofADP_12 injuriescase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 injuriesnmod:poss
12injuriesinjuryNOUNNumber=Plur9 diedobl
13;;PUNCT_16 usedpunct
14ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 usednsubj:pass
15isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 usedaux:pass
16useduseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 meansparataxis
17ininADP_19 reportscase
18officialofficialADJDegree=Pos19 reportsamod
19reportsreportNOUNNumber=Plur16 usedobl
20andandCCONJ_22 newscc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 newsdet
22newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing19 reportsconj
23..PUNCT_7 meanspunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1succumb in a quoteparticipleto machine's injuriesvn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to injury=Theme
2meanpresentvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3diepastmachineof machine's injuriesvn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of injury=Causer
4usepresent · passivebattleofficial reports and the newsvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5injure in a quotemachinenom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent
6injuremachinenom injury «state transitive»: poss=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:20.

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. 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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