Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 6
"The departed" means the dead person or the dead people; it is polite.
Who acts: example · What happens: depart, mean, be · To what, where: dead person · 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 (example), 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 | _ | 3 departed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 departed | det |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 people | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 person | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 polite | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 polite | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 polite | cop |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | the dead person or the dead people | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | example | polite property | tree rules |
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:6.
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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