Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 4

"It wasn't meant to be" means it failed and you could not have changed it.

Who acts: word, you · What happens: not mean, mean, fail, not change · To what, where: word · 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 (word, you), 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	_	5 meant	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meant	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meant	aux:pass
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 meant	advmod
5	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 means	csubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 be	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	xcomp
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 failed	nsubj
11	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 changed	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 changed	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 changed	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 changed	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 changed	aux
17	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 failed	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 changed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not mean in a quote	past · passive		word	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fail	past	word		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not change	could · perfect	you	word	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:4.

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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