Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 2
For soldiers, words like "the fallen" and "made the ultimate sacrifice" show respect for those who died in war.
Who acts: words · What happens: make, show, die · To what, where: ultimate sacrifice, respect · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (words), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 soldiers | case |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 show | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 show | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 fallen | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fallen | det |
| 8 | fallen | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 words | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sacrifice | det |
| 14 | ultimate | ultimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sacrifice | amod |
| 15 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 those | case |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 respect | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 died | nsubj |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 war | case |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 died | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | words like the fallen not said here | the ultimate sacrifice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sacrifice=Product | ||||
| 2 | show | present | words like the fallen | respect | for soldiers; for those | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient | |||
| 3 | die | past | in war | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute |
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:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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