Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 15
"A man of the cloth" means a priest or clergyman, someone whose job is to lead a church.
Who acts: man, job · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: priest
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 (man, job), 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 | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cloth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloth | det |
| 6 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 priest | det |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 clergyman | cc |
| 12 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 priest | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 someone | punct |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 priest | appos |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 job | nmod:poss |
| 16 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lead | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lead | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 lead | mark |
| 19 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 someone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 church | det |
| 21 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lead | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | a man of the cloth | a priest or clergyman | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | job | lead property | tree rules |
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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:15.
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. 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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