Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 8
"The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.
Who acts: departed, sleep · What happens: mean, be, use · To what, where: dead
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 (departed, 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 departed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 departed | det |
| 3 | dearly | dearly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 departed | advmod |
| 4 | departed | depart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dead | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 polite | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 polite | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 polite | cop |
| 12 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 used | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 used | advmod |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 polite | conj |
| 17 | jokingly | jokingly | ADV | _ | 16 used | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | 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 departed | the dead | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sleep | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | sleep not said here | jokingly, sometimes property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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:8.
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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