Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 12
"Funeral director" is the official name for an undertaker, the person who arranges funerals.
Who acts: Funeral director, person · What happens: be, arrange · To what, where: official name, funerals
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 (Funeral director, person), 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 director | punct |
| 2 | Funeral | funeral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 director | amod |
| 3 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 director | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 undertaker | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 undertaker | det |
| 11 | undertaker | undertaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 person | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 undertaker | appos |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 arranges | nsubj |
| 16 | arranges | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 person | acl:relcl |
| 17 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arranges | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Funeral director | the official name | for a undertaker | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrange | present | the person | funerals | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Product |
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:12.
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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