Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 18
"Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce.
Who acts: married couple · What happens: separate, mean, live · To what, where: married couple, divorce · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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 (married couple), 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 Separated | punct |
| 2 | Separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Separated | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 6 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 couple | amod |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 couple | acl |
| 9 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 8 living | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 divorce | punct |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 divorce | case |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 instead | cc |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 divorce | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 divorce | det |
| 16 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | separate in a quote | participle | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | a married couple | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | a married couple not said here | a divorce | apart property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before divorce=Location |
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:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:18.
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, 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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