Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 13
"Pre-need arrangements" is American funeral-business jargon for paying for your own funeral in advance.
Who acts: Pre-need arrangements, American business jargon · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: American business jargon, advance
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 (Pre-need arrangements, American business jargon), 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 arrangements | punct |
| 2 | Pre-need | pre-need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrangements | compound |
| 3 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jargon | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrangements | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 jargon | cop |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jargon | amod |
| 7 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 business | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 funeral | punct |
| 9 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jargon | compound |
| 10 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 paying | mark |
| 12 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 jargon | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 funeral | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 funeral | amod |
| 16 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paying | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 advance | case |
| 18 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jargon | 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 | Pre-need arrangements | American business jargon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | American business jargon not said here | advance | for your own funeral | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for funeral=Theme |
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:13.
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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