Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 15

«My feet are about to drop off» after a twelve-hour shift means they ache badly and she is worn out, not that her feet are coming off.

Who acts: feet · What happens: be, drop off, mean, ache, wear out, not come off · To what, where: horse · 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 (feet), 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 about	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 feet	nmod:poss
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 about	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	csubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drop	mark
7	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 drop	compound:prt
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	15 shift	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shift	det
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hour	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 twelve	punct
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shift	compound
15	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obl
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ache	nsubj
18	ache	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	ccomp
19	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 ache	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 worn	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 worn	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worn	aux:pass
23	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ache	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 worn	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 coming	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 coming	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 coming	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 feet	nmod:poss
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 coming	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 coming	aux
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 worn	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 coming	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My feet			about property	tree rules
2	drop off in a quote	to-infinitive	My feet not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present			after a hour shift		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ache	present	feet = foot			badly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	wear out	present · passive		horse			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
6	not come off	present · progressive	horse's feet				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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.

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:15.

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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