Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 7
"Her time came" means she went into labour and the baby began to be born (old-fashioned).
Who acts: time, story, baby · What happens: come, mean, go, begin, bear · To what, where: labour · 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 (time, story, 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 | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 time | nmod:poss |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 labour | case |
| 10 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 born | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 began | xcomp |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 fashioned | punct |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fashioned | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 old | punct |
| 21 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 born | advcl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 fashioned | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | story's time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | story | labour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into labour=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the baby | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | the baby not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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:7.
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 ×2. 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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