Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 5
"Everything happens for a reason" is said after something bad, to mean you should accept it.
Who acts: Everything, you · What happens: happen, say, mean, accept · 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 (Everything, 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | csubj:pass |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 reason | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happens | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux:pass |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 mean | mark |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 accept | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 accept | aux |
| 18 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 accept | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present | Everything | for a reason | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | after something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 3 | mean | to-infinitive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | accept | should | you | word | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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:5.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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