Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 16
"Administrative segregation" is the US official phrase for solitary confinement (keeping a prisoner alone in a cell, away from everyone, as a punishment).
Who acts: Administrative segregation, solitary confinement · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: US official phrase, prisoner, cell
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police» 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 (Administrative segregation, solitary confinement), 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 segregation | punct |
| 2 | Administrative | administrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 segregation | amod |
| 3 | segregation | segregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 segregation | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 phrase | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 phrase | det |
| 7 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | compound |
| 8 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 phrase | amod |
| 9 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 confinement | case |
| 11 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 confinement | amod |
| 12 | confinement | confinement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 phrase | nmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeping | punct |
| 14 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 confinement | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 prisoner | det |
| 16 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeping | obj |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 prisoner | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cell | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cell | det |
| 20 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeping | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 phrase | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 everyone | case |
| 24 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 away | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 punishment | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 punishment | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 punishment | det |
| 28 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeping | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 punishment | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 phrase | 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 | is a | present | Administrative segregation | the US official phrase | for solitary confinement; away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | solitary confinement not said here | a prisoner | a cell | as a punishment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme in cell=Location |
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:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:16.
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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