Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 4
"Shotgun wedding" means a wedding hurried because a baby is on the way (jokey).
Who acts: Shotgun wedding, baby · What happens: mean, hurry, be · To what, where: wedding, way
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 (Shotgun wedding, baby), 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 wedding | punct |
| 2 | Shotgun | shotgun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wedding | compound |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wedding | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wedding | acl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 way | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurried | advcl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 jokey | punct |
| 17 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | parataxis |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 jokey | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Shotgun wedding | a wedding | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hurry | participle | a wedding not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a baby | the way | 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:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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