--- title: "Her time came" means she went into labour and the baby began to be… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth… · tree and pragmatics description: "Her time came" means she went into labour and the baby began to be born (old-fashioned). Who acts: time, story, baby. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, story, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:7 # text = "Her time came" means she went into labour and the baby began to be born (old-fashioned). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 012-birth-and-couples.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 fashioned fashioned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | story's time | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | past | story | | | labour | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into labour=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **begin** | past | the baby | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **bear** | to-infinitive · passive | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:7`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/6/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/12-birth-and-couples/)