Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 22
"In a delicate condition" means pregnant; it is old-fashioned.
Who acts: bun · What happens: mean, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body» 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 (bun), 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 | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 condition | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 condition | det |
| 4 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 condition | amod |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 condition | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fashioned | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fashioned | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fashioned | cop |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fashioned | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 old | punct |
| 14 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | in a delicate condition; pregnant property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in condition=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | present | bun | fashioned 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:004-illness-disability-and-babies.lesson:22.
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): 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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