Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 21
"The late" before a name means the person has died, so "the late Mr Jones" can never come to next week's party.
Who acts: name, person, late Mr · What happens: mean, die, not come · To what, where: party · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (name, person, late Mr), 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 | _ | 3 late | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 late | det |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | punct |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | aux |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 means | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mr | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mr | det |
| 17 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Mr | amod |
| 18 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 19 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mr | flat |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mr | punct |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 party | case |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 week | amod |
| 26 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 party | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 week | case |
| 28 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | 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 | a name | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die | present · perfect | the person | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not come | can | the late Mr | next week's party | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location |
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:21.
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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