Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 24

"Told someone where to go" means told someone very rudely to go away.

What happens: tell, go, mean, go away · To what, where: someone · 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: 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 Told	punct
2	Told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 told	nsubj:pass
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 go	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Told	xcomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Told	ccomp
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 told	iobj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 rudely	advmod
12	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive	someone	rudely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: someone=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:039-pardon-my-french.lesson:24.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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