Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 19
"Not all there" means not quite sane (sane means thinking in a normal, clear way, not mad), or a bit slow in the head.
Who acts: sane · What happens: mean, think · To what, where: normal clear way
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 (sane), 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 there | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sane | advmod |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 sane | advmod |
| 9 | sane | sane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 11 | sane | sane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | nsubj |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sane | parataxis |
| 13 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 means | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 16 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 normal | punct |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thinking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mad | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 mad | advmod |
| 22 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 slow | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 slow | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bit | det |
| 27 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slow | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 head | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 head | det |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 slow | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | sane property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | sane | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | sane not said here | a normal clear way | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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, R7-rel-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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