Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 5
Others, like "blimey" and "strewth", were once oaths about God that have worn soft with time.
Who acts: Others, oaths · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: oaths
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 (Others, oaths), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 oaths | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strewth | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 strewth | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blimey | punct |
| 5 | blimey | blimey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strewth | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blimey | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strewth | cc |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 strewth | punct |
| 9 | strewth | strewth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Others | appos |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 strewth | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Others | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 oaths | cop |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | _ | 14 oaths | advmod |
| 14 | oaths | oath | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 oaths | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 worn | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 worn | aux |
| 19 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 oaths | acl:relcl |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 worn | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 oaths | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Others | oaths | about God; once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | present · perfect | oaths | time | soft property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R5-strong ×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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