Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 5
"A long illness" in a death notice usually means cancer or another slow disease that killed the person.
Who acts: long illness, slow disease · What happens: mean, kill · To what, where: cancer, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability 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 (long illness, slow disease), 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 illness | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 illness | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 illness | amod |
| 4 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 illness | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 notice | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 notice | det |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 notice | compound |
| 9 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illness | nmod |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 disease | cc |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 disease | det |
| 15 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 disease | amod |
| 16 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cancer | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 killed | nsubj |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disease | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | a long illness in a death notice | cancer or another slow disease | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cancer=Topic | |||
| 2 | kill | past | another slow disease | the person | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.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): 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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