Slang and how it changes with every generation, sentence 9

"Don't have a cow" is American slang for "don't get so upset"; it became famous through Bart Simpson in the 1990s.

Who acts: Slang · What happens: not have, be, not get, become · To what, where: cow, American slang, Bart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Slang and how it changes with every generation» 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 (Slang), 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 have	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 slang	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 slang	cop
9	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slang	amod
10	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 get	advmod
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 slang	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 upset	advmod
17	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 get	xcomp
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slang	conj
22	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 Bart	case
24	Bart	Bart	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 became	obl
25	Simpson	Simpson	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Bart	flat
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 1990s	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 1990s	det
28	1990s	1990s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	21 became	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 slang	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	present · do-support		a cow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
2	is a	present		American slang			tree rules
3	not get in a quote	infinitive · do-support				upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	become	past	Slang		Bart	in the 1990s result; famous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1990s=Result

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:017-slang-and-how-it-changes-with-every-generation.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): R6-punct-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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