Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 11
"Blimey!" is a British cry of surprise that comes from the old oath "God blind me".
Who acts: Blimey, British cry, God · What happens: be, come, blind · To what, where: British cry, old oath, Blimey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Blimey, British cry, God), 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 | _ | 2 Blimey | punct |
| 2 | Blimey | blimey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blimey | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blimey | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cry | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 7 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cry | amod |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 surprise | case |
| 10 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cry | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 oath | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oath | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 oath | amod |
| 16 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 blind | punct |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 blind | nsubj |
| 19 | blind | blind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 oath | appos |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 blind | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 blind | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: express | present | Blimey | a British cry | of surprise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | present | a British cry | the old oath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from oath=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | blind in a quote | infinitive | God | Blimey | 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:euphemisms:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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