Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 1

Old-fashioned phrases hid a lot: "nervous exhaustion" meant a breakdown, and "went away for a rest" could mean months in a mental hospital.

Who acts: fashioned phrases, nervous exhaustion · What happens: hide, mean, go away · To what, where: lot, breakdown

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 (fashioned phrases, nervous exhaustion), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fashioned	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Old	punct
3	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 phrases	amod
4	phrases	phrase	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 meant	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 exhaustion	punct
10	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 exhaustion	amod
11	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meant	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 exhaustion	punct
13	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hid	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 breakdown	det
15	breakdown	breakdown	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meant	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hid	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 rest	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 mean	aux
26	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 meant	conj
27	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 mean	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 hospital	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hospital	det
30	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hospital	amod
31	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mean	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	fashioned phrases	a lot			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
2	mean	past	nervous exhaustion	a breakdown			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakdown=Topic
3	go away in a quote	past	fashioned phrases not said here			for a rest; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary
4	mean	could	nervous exhaustion not said here		month	in a mental hospital	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in hospital=Attribute

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:005-drink-mind-and-body.lesson:1.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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