Soft words for hard things: illness, disability and the body, sentence 9

"Confused", said of an old person by carers, often means suffering from dementia.

Who acts: Confused · What happens: say, mean, suffer · To what, where: dementia · 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 (Confused), 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 Confused	punct
2	Confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Confused	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 means	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 person	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 carers	case
11	carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl:agent
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 means	advmod
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	suffering	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 means	ccomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 dementia	case
17	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 suffering	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle	Confused not said here		of a old person	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Confused		often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suffer	gerund		dementia		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:9.

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. 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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