Creation: God the maker, sentence 2
Christians believe this means the world is not an accident: it was made on purpose and with care, and every person, made "in God's image", has special worth.
Who acts: Christians, this, world, person, God · What happens: believe, mean, not be, make, have, image · To what, where: accident, world, purpose, person, image, special worth · 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 (Christians, this, world, person), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accident | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 accident | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 accident | advmod |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 accident | det |
| 10 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | ccomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 accident | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 care | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 care | case |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purpose | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 has | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 person | cc |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 person | det |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 person | acl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 image | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 image | case |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 image | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 God | case |
| 30 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 image | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 has | punct |
| 33 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 34 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 worth | amod |
| 35 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | the world | a accident | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | world | purpose and care | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | every person not said here | God's image | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | have | present | every person | special worth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Patient | ||||
| 7 | image in a quote | God | nom image «cognition 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, 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:2.
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 ×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.
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