Creation: God the maker, sentence 18
Psalm 8 looks up at the moon and stars and wonders why God cares about small human beings.
Who acts: Psalm, God · What happens: look up, wonder, care · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Creation: God the maker» of the religion ethics 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 (Psalm, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psalm | psalm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Psalm | flat |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looks | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stars | cc |
| 9 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moon | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wonders | cc |
| 11 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looks | conj |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 cares | advmod |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cares | nsubj |
| 14 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wonders | ccomp |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 beings | case |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beings | amod |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beings | amod |
| 18 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cares | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | present | Psalm | at the moon and stars | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | Psalm not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | care | present | God | about small human beings | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about being=Stimulus |
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, 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:religion-ethics:001-creation-god-the-maker.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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.
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