Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 16
«I nearly had a heart attack» after a fright means your heart was pounding; real chest pain, especially in a grown-up, is a 999 matter and never a joke.
Who acts: way, heart, real chest pain · What happens: have, mean, pound, grow up, be · To what, where: heart attack, 999 matter · 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, heart, real chest pain), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 attack | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attack | compound |
| 7 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 fright | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fright | det |
| 11 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pounding | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pounding | aux |
| 16 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 means | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pain | punct |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pain | amod |
| 19 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pain | compound |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 matter | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 matter | punct |
| 22 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 25 grown | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 grown | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 grown | det |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 matter | obl |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 up | punct |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grown | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grown | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 matter | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 matter | det |
| 31 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 matter | nummod |
| 32 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 joke | cc |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 joke | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 joke | det |
| 36 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 matter | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | young people's way = way | a heart attack | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | after a fright | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pound | past · progressive | your heart | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | grow up | participle | especially property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | real chest pain | a 999 matter and a joke | tree rules |
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:16.
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): R4-particle ×1, 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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