Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 19
"As previously mentioned" means "I already told you this"; it is office jargon.
Who acts: offence, palm · What happens: mention, mean, tell, be · To what, where: this, you, 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 (offence, palm), 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 | _ | 4 mentioned | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 mentioned | mark |
| 3 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 4 mentioned | advmod |
| 4 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | advcl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mentioned | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | already | already | ADV | _ | 10 told | advmod |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 jargon | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 jargon | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 jargon | cop |
| 17 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jargon | compound |
| 18 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other in a quote | participle | previously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | no offence = offence | this | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient this=Topic | |||
| 4 | is a | present | palm | office jargon | tree rules |
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:19.
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, 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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