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title: "For heaven's sake" is a polite way of saying "for God's sake", said… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics
description: "For heaven's sake" is a polite way of saying "for God's sake", said in annoyance. Who acts: sake, polite way. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes, sentence 11

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"For heaven's sake" is a polite way of saying "for God's sake", said in annoyance.

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**Who acts:** sake, polite way · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** polite way, annoyance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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 (sake, polite way), 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:11
# text = "For heaven's sake" is a polite way of saying "for God's sake", said in annoyance.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **is a** | present | heaven's sake | a polite way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a polite way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for God's sake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | heaven's sake *not said here* |  |  | annoyance |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in annoyance=Manner |

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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:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:11`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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