Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 13

«I'm so hungry I could eat a horse» is a fixed saying for «very hungry»; nobody is eating a horse.

Who acts: way, hungry, nobody · What happens: be, eat, fix · To what, where: horse, fixed saying · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more 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 (way, hungry, nobody), 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 hungry	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saying	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hungry	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 saying	det
14	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 saying	amod
15	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 hungry	case
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 hungry	punct
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 hungry	advmod
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saying	nmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 hungry	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 eating	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 eating	aux
24	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 saying	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eating	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	young people's way = way		hungry property	tree rules
2	eat in a quote	could	young people's way = way	a horse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	fix	participle				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	hungry	a fixed saying	for hungry	tree rules
5	eat	present · progressive	nobody	a horse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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:045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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