Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 18
"In a comfortable condition" in a hospital statement means seriously ill but stable.
What happens: mean
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: 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 | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 condition | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 condition | det |
| 4 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 condition | amod |
| 5 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 condition | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 statement | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 statement | det |
| 9 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 statement | compound |
| 10 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 condition | nmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 13 ill | advmod |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stable | cc |
| 15 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ill | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | 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 a comfortable condition in a hospital statement | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in condition=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.
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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 ×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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