Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 10
"Degrade" in war talk means damage or destroy, often killing many people.
Who acts: Degrade · What happens: mean, destroy, kill · To what, where: damage, many people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Degrade), 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 Degrade | punct |
| 2 | Degrade | Degrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Degrade | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 talk | case |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talk | compound |
| 6 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Degrade | nmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 destroy | cc |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 damage | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killing | punct |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 killing | advmod |
| 13 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | conj |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Degrade in war talk | damage | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Topic | ||||
| 2 | destroy | infinitive | Degrade in war talk not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | Degrade in war talk not said here | many people | often property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:10.
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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