Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 14
"Rubenesque" means plump and attractive, after the painter Rubens, who painted round women.
Who acts: Rubenesque, painter · What happens: mean, paint · To what, where: plump, round women
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» 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 (Rubenesque, painter), 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 Rubenesque | punct |
| 2 | Rubenesque | rubenesque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rubenesque | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plump | plump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 attractive | cc |
| 7 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plump | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 painter | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 painter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 painter | det |
| 11 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obl |
| 12 | Rubens | Rubens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 painter | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 painted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 painted | nsubj |
| 15 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 painter | acl:relcl |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 women | amod |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 painted | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Rubenesque | plump | after the painter | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plump=Topic | |||
| 2 | paint | past | the painter | round women | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent woman=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:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.lesson:14.
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.
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