Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 13
"Montezuma's revenge" is a joking American name for diarrhoea caught while travelling, especially in Mexico.
Who acts: revenge, Montezuma · What happens: joke, be, catch, travel, revenge · To what, where: joking American name, diarrhoea, Mexico
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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 (revenge, Montezuma), 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 | _ | 4 revenge | punct |
| 2 | Montezuma | Montezuma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Montezuma | case |
| 4 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 revenge | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 name | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 8 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 name | amod |
| 9 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 diarrhoea | case |
| 12 | diarrhoea | diarrhoea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 diarrhoea | acl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 travelling | mark |
| 15 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 caught | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mexico | punct |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 19 Mexico | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Mexico | case |
| 19 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 travelling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Montezuma's revenge | a joking American name | for diarrhoea | tree rules | |||
| 3 | catch | participle | diarrhoea not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | travel | gerund | Mexico | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mexico=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | revenge in a quote | Montezuma | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:007-wind-sick-and-runs.lesson:13.
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): R8-pos-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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