Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 21
"On the shelf" is an old, unkind phrase for someone seen as too old to marry (UK).
What happens: be, see, marry · To what, where: old unkind phrase, shelf
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: 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 | _ | 11 phrase | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 shelf | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shelf | det |
| 4 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shelf | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 phrase | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 phrase | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
| 10 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phrase | amod |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 someone | case |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 phrase | nmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 someone | acl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 old | case |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 old | advmod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seen | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 old | xcomp |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 UK | punct |
| 21 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 old | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 UK | punct |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | present | a old unkind phrase | the shelf | for someone | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | participle | as old | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as old=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:21.
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): R7-rel-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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