Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 5
"Loved one", in the speech of funeral companies, means the dead person.
What happens: love, mean, speak · To what, where: dead person, funeral companies · 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: 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 Loved | punct |
| 2 | Loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Loved | flat |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Loved | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speech | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 speech | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 speech | det |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 companies | case |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 companies | compound |
| 11 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 speech | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 person | amod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 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 | love in a quote | past | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | the dead person | in the speech of funeral companies | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot person=Theme in speech=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | speak | funeral companies | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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