Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 8
"Laid up" means ill or injured in bed, not dead; "laid to rest" means buried.
What happens: lay up, mean, lay, rest, bury · 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: 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 Laid | punct |
| 2 | Laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Laid | compound:prt |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Laid | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 injured | cc |
| 8 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ill | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ill | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dead | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 dead | advmod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ill | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 means | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 laid | advcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 means | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay up in a quote | past | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | ill property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay in a quote | past | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rest in a quote | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | bury not said to happen | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:8.
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, R7-rel-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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