--- title: "Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phr… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: "Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phrase is often used jokingly. Who acts: Gone, maker. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/20/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: death and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/) / 20 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 20 "Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phrase is often used jokingly. **Who acts:** Gone, maker · **What happens:** meet, mean, die, be, use · **To what, where:** maker, God, phrase · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying» 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 (Gone, maker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:20 # text = "Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phrase is often used jokingly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 001-death-polite-and-joking.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 maker maker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 maker maker NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 24 jokingly jokingly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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* | to-infinitive | Gone *not said here* | Shakespeare's maker | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maker=Co-Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Gone | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | participle | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | present | Shakespeare's maker | God | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **use** | present · passive | | the phrase | | | | jokingly, often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:euphemisms:001-death-polite-and-joking.lesson:20`. **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): R2-punct-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: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/)