--- title: "Called home" means died; it is used in American religious talk, mea… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying · tree and pragmatics description: "Called home" means died; it is used in American religious talk, meaning called home to God. Who acts: Called home. 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/2-death-official-and-slang/24/) [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/) / 24 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, sentence 24 "Called home" means died; it is used in American religious talk, meaning called home to God. **Who acts:** Called home · **What happens:** call, mean, die, use · **To what, where:** home, American religious talk, called home, God · **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 (Called home), 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:24 # text = "Called home" means died; it is used in American religious talk, meaning called home to God. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 2 Called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 religious religious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Called home | | | | | | 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 | **use** | present · passive | | home | | American religious talk | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **mean** | gerund | | called home | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | | 6 | **call** | participle | | | God | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient | 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:24`. **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): R5-strong ×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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/23/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/)