--- title: Euphemisms for death have many jobs: they comfort a family, honour s… — Soft words for hard things: death and dying, ill… · tree and pragmatics description: Euphemisms for death have many jobs: they comfort a family, honour soldiers, sell funerals and make dark jokes. Who acts: Euphemisms. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/0/) [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/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/) / 0 # Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 0 Euphemisms for death have many jobs: they comfort a family, honour soldiers, sell funerals and make dark jokes. **Who acts:** Euphemisms · **What happens:** have, comfort, honour, sell, make · **To what, where:** many jobs, family, soldiers, funerals, dark jokes This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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 (Euphemisms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:0 # text = Euphemisms for death have many jobs: they comfort a family, honour soldiers, sell funerals and make dark jokes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 003-death-and-feeling-poorly.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Euphemisms euphemism NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 comfort comfort VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 honour honour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sell sell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Euphemisms for death | many jobs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | | 2 | **comfort** | present | Euphemisms *= euphemism* | a family | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus family=Experiencer | | 3 | **honour** | present | Euphemisms for death *not said here* | soldiers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sell** | present | Euphemisms for death *not said here* | funerals | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent funeral=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | Euphemisms for death *not said here* | dark jokes | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product | 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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: death and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/)