Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 17
"Undocumented immigrant" means an immigrant living without legal permission (US, polite).
Who acts: Undocumented immigrant, immigrant · What happens: mean, live · To what, where: immigrant
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Undocumented immigrant, immigrant), 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 | _ | 3 immigrant | punct |
| 2 | Undocumented | undocumented | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 immigrant | amod |
| 3 | immigrant | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 immigrant | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 immigrant | det |
| 7 | immigrant | immigrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 immigrant | acl |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 permission | case |
| 10 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 permission | amod |
| 11 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 US | punct |
| 13 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 permission | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 polite | punct |
| 15 | polite | polite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 US | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 US | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Undocumented immigrant | a immigrant | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immigrant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | a immigrant not said here | without legal permission | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:024-government-spin.lesson:17.
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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