Soft words for hard things: politics and government spin and war, the military and violence, sentence 7
"Inoperative" said of an earlier statement means it was false (US).
Who acts: much · What happens: say, mean, be · To what, where: earlier statement · 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 (much), 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 Inoperative | punct |
| 2 | Inoperative | inoperative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inoperative | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 means | mark |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 statement | det |
| 7 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 statement | amod |
| 8 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 false | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 false | cop |
| 12 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | ccomp |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 US | punct |
| 14 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 US | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a earlier statement | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | much | false property | tree rules |
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:7.
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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