Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 14
"Celebration of life" means a funeral or memorial service with a cheerful mood.
Who acts: Celebration · What happens: mean, celebrate · To what, where: funeral, life
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 (Celebration), 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 Celebration | punct |
| 2 | Celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Celebration | nmod |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Celebration | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 funeral | det |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 service | cc |
| 10 | memorial | memorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 service | amod |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 funeral | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 mood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mood | det |
| 14 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mood | amod |
| 15 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 service | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Celebration of life | a funeral or memorial service with a cheerful mood | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Topic | ||||
| 2 | celebrate in a quote | life | nom celebration «event 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.
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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): R1-cc-next ×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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