Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 11

A colon (:) introduces something; with "Woman: without her, man is nothing" the same words as "Woman without her man is nothing" mean the opposite.

Who acts: colon, man, Woman, same words · What happens: introduce, be, mean · To what, where: something, nothing, opposite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» of the language 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 (colon, man, Woman, same words), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 colon	det
2	colon	colon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 introduces	nsubj
3	(:	(:	SYM	_	2 colon	discourse
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 colon	punct
5	introduces	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 introduces	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Woman	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 Woman	case
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Woman	punct
10	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Woman	punct
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 introduces	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 nothing	cop
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 introduces	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 nothing	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 words	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 mean	nsubj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 Woman	case
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Woman	punct
24	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nothing	nsubj
25	without	without	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 man	nmod:poss
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Woman	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 nothing	cop
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 mean	nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 nothing	punct
31	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 introduces	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 opposite	det
33	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mean	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 introduces	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	introduce	present	a colon	something	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	man	nothing	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	Woman without Woman's man	nothing	tree rules
4	mean	infinitive	the same words	the opposite	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic

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:language:014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.lesson:11.

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): 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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