Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 22
"Lady Luck" means chance or fortune, spoken of as if she were a person.
Who acts: Lady Luck, tree · What happens: mean, speak, be · To what, where: chance, person · 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 (Lady Luck, tree), 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 Luck | punct |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Luck | compound |
| 3 | Luck | luck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Luck | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 fortune | cc |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chance | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoken | punct |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spoken | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 person | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 person | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 person | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 person | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Lady Luck | chance or fortune | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | Lady Luck not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | tree | a person | 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:22.
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): 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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