Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy, sentence 16
"Relieved of his duties" means fired, in official language.
What happens: relieved, mean, fire · To what, where: official language · 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: 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 Relieved | punct |
| 2 | Relieved | relieved | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 duties | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 duties | nmod:poss |
| 5 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Relieved | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Relieved | 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 | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 language | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 language | case |
| 11 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 language | amod |
| 12 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relieved in a quote | participle | of severance's duties | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | official language | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fire not said to happen | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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