Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 21
"For crying out loud" is a mild way of saying "for Christ's sake", showing annoyance.
Who acts: crying, mild way · What happens: cry out, be, say, show · To what, where: mild way, annoyance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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 (crying, mild way), 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 | _ | 3 crying | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 crying | mark |
| 3 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | csubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 crying | compound:prt |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 3 crying | advmod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crying | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 saying | mark |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sake | case |
| 15 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sake | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Christ | case |
| 17 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sake | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 20 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | advcl |
| 21 | annoyance | annoyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express in a quote | gerund | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | crying | a mild way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | a mild way not said here | for Christ's sake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | gerund | crying not said here | annoyance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent annoyance=Recipient |
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:euphemisms:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:21.
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): R8-pos-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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