Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions, sentence 14

"Powder my nose" is an old-fashioned way, used by women, to say go to the toilet.

Who acts: nose, Powder · What happens: powder, be, use, say, go · To what, where: fashioned way, toilet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions» 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 (nose, Powder), 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 Powder	punct
2	Powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	nsubj
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Powder	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Powder	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fashioned	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 way	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 women	case
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 used	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	advcl
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 toilet	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 toilet	det
22	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	powder in a quote		my nose			tree rules
2	is a	present	Powder	a fashioned way		tree rules
3	use	participle		a fashioned way not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	infinitive			the toilet	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toilet=Initial_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:006-toilet-words.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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