Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 19
"Inside", "up the river" and "guest of His Majesty" all mean in prison; "under the influence" means drunk or on drugs.
What happens: mean · To what, where: influence
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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: 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 Inside | punct |
| 2 | Inside | inside | ADV | _ | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inside | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Inside | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 river | punct |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Inside | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 river | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 guest | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 guest | punct |
| 12 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Majesty | case |
| 14 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 guest | nmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 guest | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 mean | advmod |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 means | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 prison | case |
| 20 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mean | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 guest | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 influence | punct |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 influence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 influence | det |
| 25 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 influence | punct |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 means | xcomp |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 drugs | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 drugs | case |
| 31 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 drunk | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | in prison | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in prison=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the influence | drunk property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.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, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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