Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police, sentence 9
"Doing time" means serving a prison sentence.
Who acts: Doing · What happens: do, mean, serve · To what, where: prison sentence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Doing), 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 Doing | punct |
| 2 | Doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | csubj |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Doing | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Doing | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | serving | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sentence | det |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sentence | compound |
| 9 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serving | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | gerund | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Doing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve not said to happen | gerund | Doing not said here | a prison sentence | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Attribute |
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:9.
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. 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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