Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 19
"Ethnic cleansing" means driving out or killing a whole ethnic group (a people who share family roots, language or customs) from an area.
Who acts: Ethnic cleansing, people · What happens: mean, drive out, kill, share · To what, where: area, whole ethnic group, family roots · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ethnic cleansing, people), 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 cleansing | punct |
| 2 | Ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cleansing | amod |
| 3 | cleansing | cleansing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cleansing | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | PART | _ | 6 driving | compound:prt |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 killing | cc |
| 9 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 driving | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 group | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 group | amod |
| 12 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 group | amod |
| 13 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 group | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 share | nsubj |
| 18 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roots | compound |
| 20 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 share | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 language | punct |
| 22 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roots | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 customs | cc |
| 24 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 language | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 people | punct |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 area | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 area | det |
| 28 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driving | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Ethnic cleansing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drive out | gerund | a area | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from area=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | a whole ethnic group | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | |||||
| 4 | share | present | a people | family roots and language or customs | 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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:19.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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