Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 18
"Terminate with extreme prejudice" means assassinate, murder an important or chosen person on purpose (US spy slang).
What happens: terminate, mean, assassinate, murder, choose · To what, where: important person, purpose · 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: 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 Terminate | punct |
| 2 | Terminate | terminate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 prejudice | case |
| 4 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prejudice | amod |
| 5 | prejudice | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Terminate | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Terminate | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | assassinate | assassinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 murder | punct |
| 10 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 assassinate | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 12 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 person | amod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 chosen | cc |
| 14 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 important | conj |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 murder | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 person | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 slang | punct |
| 19 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 slang | compound |
| 20 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slang | compound |
| 21 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 person | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 slang | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terminate in a quote | infinitive | with extreme prejudice | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | assassinate | infinitive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | murder | infinitive | a important person | purpose | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 5 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:18.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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