Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 14
«My back's killing me» means it aches from work; pain that is very bad, sudden or does not go away is different, and the grown-up should see a doctor.
Who acts: back, pain, grown up · What happens: kill, mean, ache, be, not go, grow · To what, where: piece, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» 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 (back, pain, grown up), 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 | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killing | aux |
| 5 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 killing | obj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 aches | nsubj |
| 10 | aches | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 aches | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pain | punct |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 different | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 bad | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 bad | advmod |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pain | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sudden | punct |
| 20 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bad | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 bad | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 different | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 different | cop |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 see | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 up | det |
| 31 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 up | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 up | punct |
| 33 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | nsubj |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 see | aux |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 different | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 doctor | det |
| 37 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · progressive | My back | a piece of fruit until tea = piece | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | ache | present | back | from work | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from work=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | pain | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | pain not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | not go | present · do-support | pain not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | present | pain | away, different property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | see | should | the grown up | a doctor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |
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.
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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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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