Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 23
"Gosh darn it" is an American polite form of the curse "God damn it".
What happens: darn, be, damn · To what, where: annoyance, American polite form · 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: 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 darn | punct |
| 2 | Gosh | gosh | INTJ | _ | 3 darn | discourse |
| 3 | darn | darn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 form | parataxis |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 darn | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 darn | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 form | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 9 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 curse | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 curse | det |
| 13 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 God | punct |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 curse | appos |
| 16 | damn | damn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 God | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 damn | obj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 damn | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 form | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darn in a quote | infinitive | annoyance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a American polite form | of the curse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | damn in a quote | infinitive | annoyance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:23.
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 ×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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