Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 15
"Bless your heart" in the American South can mean "you poor foolish thing", hiding pity or scorn behind sweet words.
Who acts: you · What happens: bless, mean, thing, hide · To what, where: heart, American South, pity, sweet words · 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 (you), 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 Bless | punct |
| 2 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bless | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 South | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 South | det |
| 8 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 South | amod |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bless | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 thing | nsubj |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 15 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hiding | punct |
| 19 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 mean | advcl |
| 20 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hiding | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 scorn | cc |
| 22 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pity | conj |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hiding | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | infinitive | your heart | the American South | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | can | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | thing in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hide | gerund | pity or scorn | sweet words | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pity=Patient behind word=Location |
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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:15.
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 ×1, 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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