Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 5
The clock beats the feeling.
Who acts: clock · What happens: beat · To what, where: feeling
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 (clock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 clock | det |
| 2 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beats | nsubj |
| 3 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feeling | det |
| 5 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beats | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the clock | the feeling | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feeling=Theme |
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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