--- title: Many everyday phrases soften the word God, such as "goodness knows"… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: Many everyday phrases soften the word God, such as "goodness knows" or "for heaven's sake"; they are polite ways of saying "God knows" or "for God's sake". Who acts: Many everyday phrases, goodness, phrases, polite ways. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many everyday phrases, goodness, phrases, polite ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:1 # text = Many everyday phrases soften the word God, such as "goodness knows" or "for heaven's sake"; they are polite ways of saying "God knows" or "for God's sake". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 032-religion-fate-failure.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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 soften soften VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 goodness goodness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 27 of of SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obj 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soften** | present | Many everyday phrases | the word | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | goodness | the word *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | phrases *= phrase* | polite ways | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | polite ways *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | God | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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](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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:1`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: drinking a…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/31-drinking-drugs-religion-fate/24/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)