Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 5
"Met an untimely end" means died young or died violently.
What happens: meet, mean, die · To what, where: untimely end · 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: 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 Met | punct |
| 2 | Met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 4 | untimely | untimely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 end | amod |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Met | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Met | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 died | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 died | cc |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | conj |
| 12 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 11 died | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | past | a untimely end | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | young property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | die | past | violently property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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