Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 7
"The big sleep" means death; it is a humorous, tough-sounding phrase from crime stories.
Who acts: big sleep, sleep · What happens: mean, sound, be · To what, where: death, humorous tough sounding phrase, crime stories
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 (big sleep, sleep), 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 | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sleep | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sleep | amod |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleep | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 phrase | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 phrase | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 phrase | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 phrase | det |
| 12 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 phrase | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 humorous | punct |
| 14 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 phrase | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tough | punct |
| 16 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 phrase | amod |
| 17 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 stories | case |
| 19 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stories | compound |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 phrase | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | the big sleep | death | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | sleep | a humorous tough sounding phrase | crime stories | tree rules |
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:7.
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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