Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 17
"Pardon my French" means "excuse my swearing"; the rude word was English, not French.
Who acts: rude word, my · What happens: pardon, mean, excuse, be, not be, swear · To what, where: French, swearing · 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 (rude word, my), 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 Pardon | punct |
| 2 | Pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 French | nmod:poss |
| 4 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pardon | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pardon | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 excuse | punct |
| 8 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 swearing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | swearing | swearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 excuse | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 excuse | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 English | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 14 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 English | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 English | cop |
| 17 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 French | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 French | advmod |
| 20 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 English | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon in a quote | infinitive | my French | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | excuse in a quote | infinitive | my swearing | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swearing=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the rude word | english property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not be | the rude word not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | swear in a quote | my | nom swearing «communication intransitive»: poss=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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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