Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 6
"A higher power" means God, said without naming any religion.
Who acts: higher power · What happens: mean, say, name · To what, where: God, 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 (higher power), 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 | _ | 4 power | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 power | det |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 power | amod |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 God | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 naming | mark |
| 11 | naming | name | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 religion | det |
| 13 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 naming | obj |
| 14 | . | . | 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 | mean | present | a higher power | God | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | name | gerund | any religion | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=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:6.
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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