Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 9

"The drink", said in Ireland as in "he had a problem with the drink", means alcoholism, being unable to stop drinking alcohol.

Who acts: drink, Ireland · What happens: say, have, mean, be, stop, drink · To what, where: Ireland, problem, alcoholism, alcohol · 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 (drink, Ireland), 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 drink	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drink	det
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 means	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 problem	det
15	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 drink	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drink	det
18	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 problem	nmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	alcoholism	alcoholism	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 means	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 unable	punct
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 unable	cop
25	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 means	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stop	mark
27	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 unable	xcomp
28	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 stop	xcomp
29	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drinking	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the drink not said here		Ireland		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in ireland=Manner
2	have in a quote	past	Ireland	a problem		with the drink	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient
3	mean	present	the drink	alcoholism			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcoholism=Topic
4	is	gerund	the drink not said here			unable property	tree rules
5	stop	to-infinitive	the drink not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	drink	gerund	the drink not said here	alcohol			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient

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:9.

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. 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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