Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 23
"Detainee" means a prisoner, often held without trial (never judged in a court).
Who acts: Detainee · What happens: mean, hold, not judge · To what, where: prisoner, trial, court
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 (Detainee), 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 Detainee | punct |
| 2 | Detainee | detainee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Detainee | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prisoner | det |
| 6 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 held | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 held | advmod |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 prisoner | acl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 trial | case |
| 11 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 held | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 judged | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 judged | advmod |
| 14 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 trial | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 court | det |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 judged | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 judged | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Detainee | a prisoner | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | participle | a prisoner not said here | without trial; often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not judge | participle | trial not said here | a court | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: 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:23.
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. 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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