Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 8
"Lost his marbles" means became mentally confused or went mad; it is humorous and can be unkind.
Who acts: alcohol · What happens: lose, mean, become, go, be · To what, where: marbles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (alcohol), 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 Lost | punct |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 marbles | nmod:poss |
| 4 | marbles | marble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Lost | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 marbles | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | mentally | mentally | ADV | _ | 9 confused | advmod |
| 9 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 12 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 went | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 humorous | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 humorous | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 humorous | cop |
| 16 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 unkind | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 unkind | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 unkind | cop |
| 20 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 humorous | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | past | Uncle's marbles | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marble=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | become | past | confused property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | past | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | alcohol | humorous property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | can | alcohol not said here | unkind property | tree rules |
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: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): 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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