Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 21

"I'll bear it in mind" often means "I will ignore what you just said"; it is polite British speech.

Who acts: offence, you, mind · What happens: bear, mean, ignore, say, be · To what, where: mind, polite British speech · 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, you, mind), 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 bear	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bear	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bear	aux
4	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bear	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 mind	case
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ignore	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ignore	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ignore	aux
14	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 ignore	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ignore	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 speech	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 speech	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 speech	cop
23	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 speech	amod
24	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 speech	amod
25	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear in a quote	future	no offence = offence	mind	mind		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	mean	present				often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ignore in a quote	future	no offence = offence				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	mind	polite British speech			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:21.

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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