Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 24
"Enemy combatant" means a prisoner denied the rights of a prisoner of war, a captured soldier protected by the rules of war (US).
Who acts: Enemy combatant, prisoner, captured soldier, war · What happens: mean, deny, capture, protect, rule · To what, where: prisoner, rights, US
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 (Enemy combatant, prisoner, captured soldier, war), 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 | _ | 3 combatant | punct |
| 2 | Enemy | enemy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 combatant | amod |
| 3 | combatant | combatant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 combatant | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prisoner | det |
| 7 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 prisoner | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rights | det |
| 10 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 denied | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 prisoner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prisoner | det |
| 13 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rights | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 war | case |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prisoner | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 soldier | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 soldier | det |
| 18 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldier | amod |
| 19 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prisoner | appos |
| 20 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldier | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 rules | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rules | det |
| 23 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 protected | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 war | case |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rules | nmod |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 US | punct |
| 27 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 protected | obl |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 US | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Enemy combatant | a prisoner | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deny | participle | a prisoner not said here | the rights of a prisoner of war | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | capture | participle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | protect | participle | a captured soldier not said here | US | by the rules of war | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | rule | war | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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:24.
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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