Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 18
"Per my last email" means "you did not read my email properly"; it is office jargon.
Who acts: you, palm, my · What happens: mean, not read, be, email · To what, where: email, office jargon · 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, palm, my), 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 | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | Per | per | ADP | _ | 5 email | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 email | nmod:poss |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 email | amod |
| 5 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl | ||
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 email | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 read | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 read | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 read | advmod |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 email | nmod:poss |
| 14 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 read | obj | ||
| 15 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 12 read | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 jargon | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 jargon | cop |
| 20 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jargon | compound |
| 21 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | per my last email | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not read in a quote | past · do-support | you | my email | properly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent email=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | present | palm | office jargon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | email in a quote | my | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | email in a quote | my | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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:18.
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. 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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