Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 9
"Put him under" means giving a general anaesthetic, a medicine that makes you sleep deeply so you feel no pain; a specialist doctor watches you the whole time.
Who acts: medicine, you, specialist doctor · What happens: put under, mean, give, make, sleep, feel · To what, where: person, general anaesthetic, pain, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life 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 (medicine, you, specialist doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Put | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 2 Put | compound:prt |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 anaesthetic | det |
| 9 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 anaesthetic | amod |
| 10 | anaesthetic | anaesthetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 medicine | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 medicine | det |
| 13 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 anaesthetic | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 sleep | nsubj |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 makes | ccomp |
| 18 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 17 sleep | advmod |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 feel | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 makes | advcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 pain | det |
| 23 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feel | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 watches | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 doctor | det |
| 26 | specialist | specialist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doctor | amod |
| 27 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 watches | nsubj |
| 28 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 watches | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 31 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 watches | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put under in a quote | infinitive | person | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | gerund | a general anaesthetic | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anaesthetic=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | a medicine | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sleep | present | you | deeply property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | feel | present | you | no pain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 7 | watch | present | a specialist doctor | you | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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.
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