Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 24
"Called home" means died; it is used in American religious talk, meaning called home to God.
Who acts: Called home · What happens: call, mean, die, use · To what, where: home, American religious talk, called home, God · 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 (Called home), 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 Called | punct |
| 2 | Called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 home | amod |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 used | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 used | aux:pass |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 talk | case |
| 12 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 talk | amod |
| 13 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 talk | amod |
| 14 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 used | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meaning | punct |
| 16 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 used | advcl |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 home | amod |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meaning | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 God | case |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | 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 | call in a quote | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Called home | 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 | use | present · passive | home | American religious talk | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mean | gerund | called home | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | |||||
| 6 | call | participle | God | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient |
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:24.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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