Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 10

"Shucks!" is an old-fashioned American mild word for disappointment or shyness, used instead of a rude word.

Who acts: Shucks · What happens: be, use · To what, where: fashioned American mild word

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 (Shucks), 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 Shucks	punct
2	Shucks	Shucks	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 word	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shucks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shucks	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 word	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fashioned	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
9	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
11	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 word	amod
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 disappointment	case
14	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	nmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 shyness	cc
16	shyness	shyness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disappointment	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 word	acl
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	23 word	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
22	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 word	amod
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 used	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 word	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	present	Shucks	a fashioned American mild word				for disappointment or shyness	tree rules
2	use	participle		a fashioned American mild word not said here				instead a rude word	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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.

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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.

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