Not unhappy and not half: litotes, sentence 8
«Well, I'm not unhappy with that» means «I'm pleased»; the two negatives (not, un-) cancel out.
Who acts: Mum, two negatives · What happens: not be, mean, be, not cancel out · To what, where: un · 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 (Mum, two negatives), 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 | _ | 7 unhappy | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 unhappy | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 unhappy | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unhappy | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 unhappy | advmod |
| 7 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 unhappy | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 unhappy | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | cop |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 means | ccomp |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 negatives | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 negatives | nummod |
| 20 | negatives | negative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 cancel | nsubj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 cancel | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 cancel | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 not | punct |
| 24 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cancel | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 un | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 un | punct |
| 27 | cancel | cancel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | parataxis |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 cancel | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Mum | with that; unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Mum | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not cancel out | infinitive | the two negatives | un | 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:8.
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. 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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