Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 13
"Living in sin" is an old jokey phrase for living together without being married.
Who acts: old jokey phrase · What happens: live, be, live together, marry · To what, where: sin, old jokey phrase
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (old jokey phrase), 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 | _ | 2 Living | punct |
| 2 | Living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 phrase | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sin | case |
| 4 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Living | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Living | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 phrase | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 phrase | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phrase | amod |
| 9 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 phrase | amod |
| 10 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 living | mark |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 phrase | acl |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 living | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 married | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 living | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 phrase | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | gerund | sin | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sin=Location | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a old jokey phrase | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live together | gerund | a old jokey phrase not said here | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | gerund · passive | a old jokey phrase not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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:013-relations-and-family.lesson:13.
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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