Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight, sentence 20
"Past his prime" means he is no longer young or at his best.
Who acts: person · What happens: mean, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: age and looks and weight» 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 (person), 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 | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | Past | past | ADP | _ | 4 prime | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 prime | nmod:poss |
| 4 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prime | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 young | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 young | cop |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 young | advmod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | ccomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 best | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 best | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 best | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 young | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | past person's prime | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | person | long, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | person not said here | 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:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:20.
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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