--- title: "As previously mentioned" means "I already told you this"; it is off… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "As previously mentioned" means "I already told you this"; it is office jargon. Who acts: offence, palm. 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/19/) [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: rudeness a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/) / 19 # Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing, sentence 19 "As previously mentioned" means "I already told you this"; it is office jargon. **Who acts:** offence, palm · **What happens:** mention, mean, tell, be · **To what, where:** this, you, office jargon · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (offence, palm), 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:19 # text = "As previously mentioned" means "I already told you this"; it is office jargon. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 As as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 previously previously ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 mentioned mention VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 already already ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 jargon jargon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | previously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | no offence *= offence* | this | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient this=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | palm | office jargon | | | | | tree rules | 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:19`. **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 ×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: rudeness a…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/18/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)