Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 10
To "embroider" a story means to add invented details to it.
Who acts: invented details · What happens: embroider, mean, add, invent · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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 (invented details), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 embroider | mark |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 embroider | punct |
| 3 | embroider | embroider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | csubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 embroider | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embroider | obj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 add | mark |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | xcomp |
| 10 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 details | amod |
| 11 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 add | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 add | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider in a quote | to-infinitive | a story | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Product | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | add speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | invented details | story | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | invent | participle | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:10.
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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