Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 5
"Seven-month baby" was an old gossip phrase for a baby that came less than nine months after the wedding.
Who acts: month baby, baby · What happens: be, come · To what, where: old gossip 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 (month baby, 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 | _ | 5 baby | punct |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 month | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seven | punct |
| 4 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baby | compound |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 baby | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 phrase | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 phrase | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | amod |
| 10 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | compound |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 baby | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 baby | det |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 baby | acl:relcl |
| 17 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 19 nine | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 less | fixed |
| 19 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 months | nummod |
| 20 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | obj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 wedding | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wedding | det |
| 23 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | month baby | a old gossip phrase | for a baby | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | a baby | after the wedding; month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:5.
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. 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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