Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 14
Proverbs 15:1 says «A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger».
Who acts: Proverbs, gentle answer, harsh word · What happens: say, turn away, stir up · To what, where: wrath, anger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» 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 (Proverbs, gentle answer, harsh word), 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 | Proverbs | Proverbs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | 15:1 | 15:1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Proverbs | flat |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | nsubj |
| 8 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 turns | advmod |
| 10 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turns | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stirs | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stirs | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 14 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 word | amod |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stirs | nsubj |
| 16 | stirs | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turns | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 stirs | compound:prt |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stirs | obj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 turns | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Proverbs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn away in a quote | present | a gentle answer | wrath | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | |||
| 3 | stir up in a quote | present | a harsh word | anger | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition anger=Patient |
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:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:14.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
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