--- title: "Succumbed to his injuries" means he died of his injuries; it is use… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: "Succumbed to his injuries" means he died of his injuries; it is used in official reports and the news. Who acts: machine. 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 cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/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/2-death-official-and-slang/) / 20 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 20 "Succumbed to his injuries" means he died of his injuries; it is used in official reports and the news. **Who acts:** machine · **What happens:** succumb, mean, die, use, injure · **To what, where:** battle, official reports · **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 (machine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:002-death-official-and-slang.lesson:20 # text = "Succumbed to his injuries" means he died of his injuries; it is used in official reports and the news. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 002-death-official-and-slang.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Succumbed succumb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **succumb** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | to machine's injuries | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to injury=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | machine | | | | | of machine's injuries | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of injury=Causer | | 4 | **use** | present · passive | | battle | | official reports and the news | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **injure** *in a quote* | | machine | | | | | | nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **injure** | | machine | | | | | | nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:002-death-official-and-slang.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/2-death-official-and-slang/19/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/)