--- title: "Passed away" is a gentle way of saying "died"; underneath, it means… — When someone dies · tree and pragmatics description: "Passed away" is a gentle way of saying "died"; underneath, it means the person has died and will not come back. Who acts: gentle way, it, person. A sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [When someone dies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/) / 9 # When someone dies, sentence 9 "Passed away" is a gentle way of saying "died"; underneath, it means the person has died and will not come back. **Who acts:** gentle way, it, person · **What happens:** pass away, be, say, die, mean, not come back · **To what, where:** gentle way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone dies» of the adult life 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 (gentle way, it, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:9 # text = "Passed away" is a gentle way of saying "died"; underneath, it means the person has died and will not come back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 024-when-someone-dies.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 9 of of SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass away** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a gentle way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a gentle way *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **die** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | underneath *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **die** | present · perfect | the person | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **not** **come back** | future | the person *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:024-when-someone-dies.lesson:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When someone dies, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/8/) - next →: [When someone dies, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/)