--- title: "Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until… — Soft words for hard things: war, the military an… · tree and pragmatics description: "Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting. Who acts: Pacification, people. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/) / 5 # Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence, sentence 5 "Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting. **Who acts:** Pacification, people · **What happens:** mean, crush, stop, resist · **To what, where:** people This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: war, the military and violence» of the euphemisms 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 (Pacification, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:5 # text = "Pacification" means violently crushing the people of a place until they stop resisting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 026-war-and-the-military.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Pacification pacification NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 violently violently ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 crushing crush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 15 resisting resist VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **mean** | present | Pacification | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **crush** *not said to happen* | gerund | Pacification *not said here* | the people of a place | | | | violently *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **stop** | present | people | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **resist** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | 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](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:026-war-and-the-military.lesson:5`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/4/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: war, the m…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/)