Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 16
"The good Lord willing" means if God allows it, that is, if nothing goes wrong.
Who acts: God, nothing · What happens: mean, allow, be, go · To what, where: guy, that
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (God, nothing), 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 | _ | 5 willing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lord | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lord | amod |
| 4 | Lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 willing | nsubj |
| 5 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | advcl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 willing | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 allows | mark |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 allows | nsubj |
| 10 | allows | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 allows | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 means | parataxis |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 that | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 goes | mark |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 goes | nsubj |
| 18 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 19 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 goes | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | allow a condition, not said to happen | present | God | guy | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | nothing | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:16.
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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