Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 4
«A gentle answer turns away wrath» is advice for the playground today: a calm word can stop a fight that a harsh word would start.
Who acts: gentle answer, calm word, harsh word · What happens: turn away, be, stop, start · To what, where: wrath, advice, fight · 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 (gentle answer, calm word, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 turns | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 3 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answer | amod |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 advice | csubj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 turns | advmod |
| 7 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 turns | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 advice | cop |
| 10 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 playground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 playground | det |
| 13 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advice | nmod |
| 14 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advice | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 stop | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 17 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 word | amod |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stop | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stop | aux |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 advice | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fight | det |
| 22 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stop | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 start | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 word | det |
| 25 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 word | amod |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 start | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 start | aux |
| 28 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fight | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 advice | 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 | turn away in a quote | present | a gentle answer | wrath | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | advice | today | for the playground | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stop | can | a calm word | a fight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | start | would | a harsh word | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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:4.
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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