--- title: "Bless your heart" in the American South can mean "you poor foolish… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Bless your heart" in the American South can mean "you poor foolish thing", hiding pity or scorn behind sweet words. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:15 # text = "Bless your heart" in the American South can mean "you poor foolish thing", hiding pity or scorn behind sweet words. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 040-with-all-due-respect.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Bless bless VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 nsubj _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your heart | | the American South | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **thing** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hide** | gerund | | pity or scorn | | sweet words | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pity=Patient behind word=Location | 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:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:15`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)