Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 8
"A little stranger" means a baby that is expected (old-fashioned, UK).
Who acts: little stranger · What happens: mean, expect · To what, where: baby
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 (little stranger), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stranger | amod |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stranger | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 expected | aux:pass |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 baby | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 fashioned | punct |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fashioned | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 15 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 expected | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 UK | punct |
| 17 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 UK | punct |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | a little stranger | a baby | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expect | present · passive | a baby | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:8.
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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