Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks, sentence 9
"Relieve oneself" is a polite way to say urinate or poo.
What happens: relieve, be, say, urinate · To what, where: oneself, polite way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: the toilet and bodily functions and age and looks» 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: 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 Relieve | punct |
| 2 | Relieve | relieve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | csubj |
| 3 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Relieve | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Relieve | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | urinate | urinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 poo | cc |
| 13 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 urinate | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relieve in a quote | infinitive | oneself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus oneself=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a polite way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | urinate | infinitive | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:008-toilets-and-getting-older.lesson:9.
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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