--- title: Long ago it was thought wrong to say God's or Jesus's name in anger,… — Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madnes… · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago it was thought wrong to say God's or Jesus's name in anger, so people bent the words: God became "gosh" and "golly", Jesus became "gee" and "jeez", Christ became "crikey" and "cripes". Who acts: people, God, Jesus, Christ. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/) / 4 # Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 4 Long ago it was thought wrong to say God's or Jesus's name in anger, so people bent the words: God became "gosh" and "golly", Jesus became "gee" and "jeez", Christ became "crikey" and "cripes". **Who acts:** people, God, Jesus, Christ · **What happens:** think, say, bend, become, name · **To what, where:** mind, name, anger, words, gee, crikey · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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 (people, God, Jesus, Christ), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:4 # text = Long ago it was thought wrong to say God's or Jesus's name in anger, so people bent the words: God became "gosh" and "golly", Jesus became "gee" and "jeez", Christ became "crikey" and "cripes". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 037-bats-and-gosh.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 14 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 gosh gosh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 golly golly NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 34 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 gee gee NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 jeez jeez ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:xcomp 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ _ 47 crikey crikey NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 xcomp _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 " " PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 51 cripes cripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 conj _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive | | mind | | | | ago, wrong *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | God or Jesus's name | | anger | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent name=Theme in anger=Manner | | 3 | **bend** | past | people | the words | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent word=Material | | 4 | **become** | past | God | | | | | gosh *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **become** | past | Jesus | gee | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **become** | past | Christ | crikey and cripes | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **name** | | God or Jesus | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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](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:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:4`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/3/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: stupidity…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/)