Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 3

Bad luck gets soft words too: "fate had other plans" is a gentle way of saying that something simply did not happen or went wrong.

Who acts: Bad luck, fate, gentle way, something · What happens: get, have, be, say, not happen, go · To what, where: soft words, other plans, gentle way · 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 (Bad luck, fate, gentle way, 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	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 luck	amod
2	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gets	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 way	parataxis
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plans	amod
12	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	parataxis
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 saying	mark
19	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	acl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 happen	mark
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 happen	nsubj
22	simply	simply	ADV	_	25 happen	advmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 happen	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 happen	advmod
25	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 saying	ccomp
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 happen	conj
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 went	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	Bad luck	soft words		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	have in a quote	past	fate	other plans		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
3	is a	present		a gentle way		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a gentle way not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not happen	past · do-support	something		simply property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	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:3.

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. 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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