Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 24
"Fate had other plans" means that something did not happen or went wrong.
Who acts: Fate, something · What happens: have, mean, not happen, go · To what, where: other plans · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fate, something), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | Fate | fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plans | amod |
| 5 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 happen | mark |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 happen | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 happen | advmod |
| 12 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happen | conj |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 went | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | 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 | have in a quote | past | Fate | other plans | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not happen | past · do-support | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | something not said here | 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:24.
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, 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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