Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 17
«You're not a million miles away» means you are close: a guess of 80 when the jar holds 85 is close.
Who acts: You, jar · What happens: be, mean, hold · To what, where: 85 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Not unhappy and not half: litotes» 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 (You, jar), 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 | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 away | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 away | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 million | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 million | det |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 miles | nummod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 away | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 means | nsubj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 close | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 close | cop |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | ccomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 guess | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 guess | det |
| 16 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 80 | case |
| 18 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 guess | nmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 holds | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jar | det |
| 21 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | nsubj |
| 22 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | parataxis |
| 23 | 85 | 85 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 holds | obj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 close | cop |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 holds | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | million miles obl:unmarked; away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | you | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | present | the jar | 85 | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 85=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the jar not said here | close property | 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:050-not-unhappy-and-not-half-litotes.lesson:17.
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 ×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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