Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 14

"Round the bend" means mad or very annoyed; "you're driving me round the bend" means you are making me crazy with annoyance.

Who acts: you, driving · What happens: mean, drive, make · To what, where: jokey way, bend, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness» 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 (you, driving), 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 bend	punct
2	Round	round	ADP	_	4 bend	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bend	det
4	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bend	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 annoyed	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 annoyed	advmod
10	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mad	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 driving	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 driving	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 driving	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 driving	aux
15	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 means	csubj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 driving	obj
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 bend	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bend	det
19	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 driving	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 driving	punct
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 making	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 making	aux
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 means	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 making	obj
26	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 making	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 annoyance	case
28	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crazy	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				round the bend; mad property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	drive in a quote	present · progressive	you	a jokey way = way	the bend		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme round bend=Trajectory
3	mean	present	driving				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	present · progressive	you	me		crazy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product

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:036-dim-and-round-the-bend.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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