Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body, sentence 19
"Brown bread" means dead; it is London rhyming slang ("bread" rhymes with "dead").
Who acts: Brown bread, London slang, bread · What happens: mean, rhyme, be · To what, where: London slang
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: death and dying, illness and the body» 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 (Brown bread, London slang, bread), 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 bread | punct |
| 2 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bread | compound |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bread | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 slang | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slang | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slang | cop |
| 10 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 slang | compound |
| 11 | rhyming | rhyme | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 slang | acl |
| 12 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | parataxis |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 rhymes | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bread | punct |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rhymes | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bread | punct |
| 17 | rhymes | rhyme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slang | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 dead | punct |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rhymes | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 dead | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 rhymes | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | 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 | mean | present | Brown bread | dead property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rhyme | gerund | London slang not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | bread | London slang | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rhyme | present | bread | with dead | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with dead=Co-Patient |
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:003-death-and-feeling-poorly.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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