Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 15
"Given his marching orders" means fired or told to leave (mostly UK).
Who acts: marching orders, severance · What happens: mean, fire, tell, leave, order · To what, where: UK · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy» 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 (marching orders, severance), 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 | _ | 8 fired | punct |
| 2 | Given | give | ADP | _ | 5 orders | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | marching | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 orders | compound |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 orders | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fired | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 UK | punct |
| 14 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 15 UK | advmod |
| 15 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 UK | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | severance's marching orders | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | UK | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uk=Theme | |||||
| 5 | order in a quote | severance | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:021-work-firing-and-the-economy.lesson:15.
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 ×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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