Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 17
"No offence, but" warns that what comes next will offend.
Who acts: offence · What happens: warn, come, offend · 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 (offence), 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 | _ | 3 offence | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 offence | det |
| 3 | offence | offence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warns | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 warns | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 warns | cc |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 warns | punct |
| 7 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 offend | mark |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 comes | nsubj |
| 10 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 warns | ccomp |
| 11 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 comes | advmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 offend | aux |
| 13 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 warns | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 warns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | no offence | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | present | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | offend | future | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): R5-strong ×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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