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title: "The good Lord willing" means if God allows it, that is, if nothing… — Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "The good Lord willing" means if God allows it, that is, if nothing goes wrong. Who acts: God, nothing. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 16

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"The good Lord willing" means if God allows it, that is, if nothing goes wrong.

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**Who acts:** God, nothing · **What happens:** mean, allow, be, go · **To what, where:** guy, that

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (God, nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:16
# text = "The good Lord willing" means if God allows it, that is, if nothing goes wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	parataxis	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
18	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | God | guy |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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