Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin, sentence 8
"Nation-building" means occupying a country (moving in with soldiers and taking control) and remaking its government.
Who acts: Nation building · What happens: mean, occupy, move in, take, remake · To what, where: country, control, government · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nation building), 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 | _ | 4 building | punct |
| 2 | Nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 building | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nation | punct |
| 4 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 building | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | occupying | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occupying | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 moving | punct |
| 11 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 occupying | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 moving | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 moving | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 taking | cc |
| 16 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 moving | conj |
| 17 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taking | obj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 moving | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 remaking | cc |
| 20 | remaking | remake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 occupying | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 government | nmod:poss |
| 22 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remaking | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Nation building | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | occupy | gerund | a country | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus country=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | move in | gerund | with soldiers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | control | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | |||||
| 5 | remake | gerund | building's government | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset government=Product |
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:8.
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): R6-punct-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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