Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 17

"Liquidate" means kill, especially many people; dictators (rulers with total power who cannot be voted out) have used it.

Who acts: dictators · What happens: liquidate, mean, not vote out, use · To what, where: kill, total power, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence» 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 (dictators), 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 Liquidate	punct
2	Liquidate	liquidate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 means	csubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Liquidate	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 people	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kill	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 used	punct
11	dictators	dictator	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 used	nsubj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 rulers	punct
13	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dictators	appos
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 power	case
15	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 power	amod
16	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rulers	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 voted	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 voted	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 voted	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 voted	aux:pass
21	voted	vote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 power	acl:relcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 voted	compound:prt
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 voted	punct
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 used	aux
25	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 used	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	liquidate in a quote	infinitive			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present		kill and many people	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kill=Topic
3	not vote out	can · passive		total power	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result
4	use	present · perfect	dictators	power	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:025-spin-war-and-violence.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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