Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 23

"Marches to the beat of a different drum" means is very unusual and does things his own way; it is American and often kind.

Who acts: way · What happens: march, mean, be, do · To what, where: things · 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 (way), 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	_	2 Marches	punct
2	Marches	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 beat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beat	det
5	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Marches	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 drum	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 drum	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drum	amod
9	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Marches	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unusual	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 unusual	advmod
14	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 does	cc
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unusual	conj
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 does	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 things	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 American	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 American	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 American	cop
24	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kind	cc
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 kind	advmod
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 American	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	march in a quote	present			to the beat of a different drum result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beat=Result
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			unusual property	tree rules
4	do	present		things person's own way		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	is	present	way		american property	tree rules
6	be		way not said here		often property	tree rules

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:23.

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, R8-pos-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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