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title: "Blimey!" is a British cry of surprise that comes from the old oath… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics
description: "Blimey!" is a British cry of surprise that comes from the old oath "God blind me". Who acts: Blimey, British cry, God. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 11

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"Blimey!" is a British cry of surprise that comes from the old oath "God blind me".

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**Who acts:** Blimey, British cry, God · **What happens:** be, come, blind · **To what, where:** British cry, old oath, Blimey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Blimey, British cry, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:038-drat-and-the-f-word.lesson:11
# text = "Blimey!" is a British cry of surprise that comes from the old oath "God blind me".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 038-drat-and-the-f-word.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Blimey	blimey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	blind	blind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **be** *speech: express* | present | Blimey | a British cry |  |  |  | of surprise | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | a British cry |  |  | the old oath |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from oath=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **blind** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | Blimey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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