Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising, sentence 15
"Vintage" can simply mean old and used.
Who acts: Vintage · What happens: mean, use
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» 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 (Vintage), 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 Vintage | punct |
| 2 | Vintage | vintage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vintage | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 5 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mean | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 used | cc |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 old | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | 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 | mean | can | Vintage | old, simply property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | Vintage not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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.
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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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