Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 4

Ask of every official phrase: who is doing what, to whom, and what would the plain word be?

Who acts: you, official phrase · What happens: ask, do, be · To what, where: official phrase

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 (you, official phrase), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 phrase	case
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 phrase	det
4	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 phrase	amod
5	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 doing	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 phrase	acl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 doing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Ask	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 be	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 be	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 be	advcl
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 word	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 word	det
19	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 word	amod
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		of every official phrase	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of phrase=Recipient
2	do	present · progressive	every official phrase	every official phrase		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	be	infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «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:4.

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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