Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 5
"One for the road" means one last alcoholic drink before leaving.
Who acts: One, one last alcoholic drink · What happens: mean, leave · To what, where: one last alcoholic drink
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 (One, one last alcoholic drink), 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 | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 One | nmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 drink | nummod |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | amod |
| 10 | alcoholic | alcoholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | amod |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 leaving | mark |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 drink | acl |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | One for the road | one last alcoholic drink | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | one last alcoholic drink not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:5.
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 ×2, 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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