Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 23
"Broken home" is an old-fashioned phrase for a family where the parents divorced.
Who acts: Broken home, parents · What happens: be, divorced · To what, where: fashioned phrase
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 (Broken home, parents), 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 | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 2 | Broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 home | amod |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 phrase | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 phrase | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 phrase | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fashioned | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phrase | amod |
| 10 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 phrase | nmod |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 divorced | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parents | det |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 divorced | nsubj |
| 17 | divorced | divorced | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 family | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Broken home | a fashioned phrase | for a family | tree rules | |||
| 2 | divorced | past | the parents | tree rules |
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:23.
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): no change. 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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