Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 1

Businesses rename sad things to sound gentler: an undertaker becomes a "funeral director" and a cemetery becomes a "memorial park".

Who acts: Businesses, undertaker, cemetery · What happens: rename, sound, become · To what, where: sad things, funeral director, memorial park

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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 (Businesses, undertaker, cemetery), 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	Businesses	business	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rename	nsubj
2	rename	rename	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rename	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sound	mark
6	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rename	advcl
7	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sound	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 becomes	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 undertaker	det
10	undertaker	undertaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 becomes	nsubj
11	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rename	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 director	det
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 director	punct
14	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 director	compound
15	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 becomes	xcomp
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 director	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 becomes	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cemetery	det
19	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 becomes	nsubj
20	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 becomes	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 park	det
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 park	punct
23	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 park	compound
24	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 becomes	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 park	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rename	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rename	present	Businesses	sad things		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	sound	to-infinitive	Businesses not said here		gentle property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	become	present	a undertaker	a funeral director		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	become	present	a cemetery	a memorial park		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:1.

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, 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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