Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 4

People also apologise for their own swearing with a joke: "Pardon my French!" pretends the rude word was a foreign one.

Who acts: People, rude word · What happens: apologise, pardon, pretend, be, swear · To what, where: French, foreign one · 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 (People, rude word), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apologise	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 apologise	advmod
3	apologise	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pretends	parataxis
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 swearing	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 swearing	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swearing	amod
7	swearing	swearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apologise	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 joke	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 joke	det
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swearing	nmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Pardon	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Pardon	punct
13	Pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swearing	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 French	nmod:poss
15	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Pardon	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Pardon	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Pardon	punct
18	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 word	det
20	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 word	amod
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pretends	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 apologise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	present	People		for People's own swearing with a joke	tree rules
2	pardon in a quote	infinitive	People not said here	my French		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Theme
3	pretend	present				tree rules
4	is a	past	the rude word	a foreign one		tree rules
5	swear		People		with a joke	nom swearing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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