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title: "Sleep with the fishes" is US gangster slang for being murdered and… — Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sleep with the fishes" is US gangster slang for being murdered and dumped in water. Who acts: Sleep. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 10

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"Sleep with the fishes" is US gangster slang for being murdered and dumped in water.

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**Who acts:** Sleep · **What happens:** be, murder, dump · **To what, where:** US gangster slang, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» 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 (Sleep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:10
# text = "Sleep with the fishes" is US gangster slang for being murdered and dumped in water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 028-stealing-and-lying.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	gangster	gangster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	murdered	murder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dumped	dump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Sleep with the fishes | US gangster slang |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **murder** | gerund · passive |  | US gangster slang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **dump** | participle |  |  |  | water |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in water=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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