Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 5
"Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting.
Who acts: Pacification, people · What happens: mean, crush, stop, resist · To what, where: 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 (Pacification, 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 | _ | 2 Pacification | punct |
| 2 | Pacification | pacification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pacification | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 6 crushing | advmod |
| 6 | crushing | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crushing | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 stop | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 crushing | advcl |
| 15 | resisting | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stop | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | Pacification | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | crush not said to happen | gerund | Pacification not said here | the people of a place | violently property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 3 | stop | present | people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | resist | gerund | people not said here | 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:5.
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): 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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