Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 17
"Non-practising" means belonging to a religion but not following it.
Who acts: Non-practising · What happens: mean, belong, not follow · To what, where: religion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Non-practising), 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 | _ | 2 Non-practising | punct |
| 2 | Non-practising | non-practising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Non-practising | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 religion | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 religion | det |
| 8 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belonging | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 following | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 following | advmod |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 belonging | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 following | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Non-practising | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | belong | gerund | to a religion | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not follow | gerund | religion | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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