Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 5
"Earmarks" means money set aside for a politician's pet local projects, favourite schemes in his own area (US).
Who acts: Earmarks, politician · What happens: mean, set, project · To what, where: money, own area
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 (Earmarks, politician), 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 Earmarks | punct |
| 2 | Earmarks | earmark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Earmarks | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 money | acl |
| 7 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 projects | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 politician | det |
| 10 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 projects | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 politician | case |
| 12 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 projects | compound |
| 13 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 projects | amod |
| 14 | projects | project | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 schemes | punct |
| 16 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 schemes | amod |
| 17 | schemes | scheme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 projects | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 area | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 area | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 area | amod |
| 21 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 projects | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 US | punct |
| 23 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 area | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 US | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Earmarks | money | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set | participle | money not said here | for a politician's pet local projects in statement's own area and favourite schemes; aside property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for project=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | project | a politician | statement's own area | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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.
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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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