Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 8
"Guest of His Majesty" is a British joke for a prisoner.
Who acts: Guest · What happens: be · To what, where: British joke
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 (Guest), 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 Guest | punct |
| 2 | Guest | guest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Majesty | case |
| 4 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Guest | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Guest | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 joke | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joke | det |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joke | amod |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 prisoner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prisoner | det |
| 13 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joke | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Guest of Guest's Majesty | a British joke | for a prisoner | 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:027-crime-prison-and-police.lesson:8.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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