Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 7
"Feck" is an Irish word, milder than the f-word, used in anger or as a joke.
Who acts: Feck · What happens: be, use · To what, where: Irish word, f word, anger
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 (Feck), 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 Feck | punct |
| 2 | Feck | feck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Feck | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 word | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 milder | punct |
| 9 | milder | mild | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 word | amod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 word | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 12 | f | f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 f | punct |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milder | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 word | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 anger | case |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 used | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 joke | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 joke | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 joke | det |
| 22 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anger | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | Feck | a Irish word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | the f word not said here | anger or a joke | 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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