Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs, sentence 1
So people use jokes and old slang for being drunk ("legless", "blotto", "squiffy") and cosy words for drinks ("a nightcap", "refreshments").
Who acts: people · What happens: use, be · To what, where: jokes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 slang | cc |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slang | amod |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jokes | conj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 drunk | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 drunk | cop |
| 10 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | advcl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 legless | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 legless | punct |
| 13 | legless | legless | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drunk | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 legless | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 blotto | punct |
| 17 | blotto | blotto | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 use | dep |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 blotto | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 squiffy | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 squiffy | punct |
| 21 | squiffy | squiffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 use | parataxis |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 squiffy | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 words | cc |
| 25 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 drinks | case |
| 28 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 words | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 nightcap | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 nightcap | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 nightcap | det |
| 32 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | parataxis |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 nightcap | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 refreshments | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 refreshments | punct |
| 36 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 nightcap | appos |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 refreshments | punct |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 nightcap | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | jokes and old slang | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent joke=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | people not said here | drunk property | 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:030-drinking-and-drugs.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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