Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness, sentence 3

Many old words for madness are jokes, and real mental illness is no joke, so a kind person does not use them about someone who is truly unwell.

Who acts: Many old words, real mental illness, kind person · What happens: be, not use · To what, where: jokes, joke, words

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 (Many old words, real mental illness, kind person), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jokes	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 madness	case
5	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 jokes	cop
7	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 joke	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 joke	cc
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 illness	amod
11	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 illness	amod
12	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 joke	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 joke	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jokes	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 use	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 person	det
19	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 person	amod
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 use	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 use	advmod
23	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 jokes	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 use	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	26 someone	case
26	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 use	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 unwell	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 unwell	cop
29	truly	truly	ADV	_	30 unwell	advmod
30	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 someone	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 jokes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Many old words for madness	jokes and no joke		tree rules
2	is a	present	real mental illness	no joke		tree rules
3	not use	present · do-support	a kind person	words = word	about someone	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is	present			truly, unwell 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:3.

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): no change. 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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