Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin, sentence 11
"Sunsetting" means ending or discontinuing a product: the firm stops making or running it.
Who acts: firm · What happens: sunset, mean, end, discontinue, stop, make · To what, where: product, bug · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: business and advertising and politics and government spin» 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 (firm), 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 Sunsetting | punct |
| 2 | Sunsetting | sunset | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sunsetting | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 discontinuing | cc |
| 7 | discontinuing | discontinue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ending | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 product | det |
| 9 | product | product | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ending | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 firm | det |
| 12 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stops | nsubj |
| 13 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | parataxis |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stops | xcomp |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 running | cc |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 making | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 running | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sunset in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | end | gerund | a product | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality product=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | discontinue | gerund | vn stop-55.4 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector | ||||||
| 5 | stop | present | the firm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | make | gerund | the firm not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 7 | run | gerund | the firm not said here | bug | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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:023-fees-bugs-and-spin.lesson:11.
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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