Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 19
"A touch of the sun" means mild sunstroke (feeling ill from too much hot sun); it is old-fashioned and British.
Who acts: touch, mild sunstroke · What happens: mean, feel, be, touch · To what, where: mild sunstroke, sun
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 (touch, mild sunstroke), 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 touch | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 touch | det |
| 3 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touch | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 touch | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sunstroke | amod |
| 10 | sunstroke | sunstroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sunstroke | acl |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feeling | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sun | case |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sun | amod |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sun | amod |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ill | obl |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fashioned | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fashioned | cop |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fashioned | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 old | punct |
| 25 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 British | cc |
| 27 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fashioned | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | a touch of the sun | mild sunstroke | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunstroke=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | mild sunstroke not said here | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | touch | fashioned property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | touch not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | touch in a quote | the sun | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
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: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 ×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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