Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 8
Psalm 23 is often read at funerals because Christians find comfort in it that God is with them in hard times.
Who acts: Christians, God · What happens: read, find, be · To what, where: Psalm, funerals, comfort · 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 (Christians, 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 | 5 read | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Psalm | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux:pass |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 read | advmod |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 funerals | case |
| 7 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 9 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 find | nsubj |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | advcl |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 comfort | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 them | mark |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 them | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 them | cop |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 times | case |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 times | amod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · passive | Psalm | funerals | often property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at funeral=Value | |||
| 2 | find | present | Christians | comfort | comfort | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic | ||
| 3 | is | present | God | with Psalms = psalm | 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, 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:8.
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): R8-pos-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.
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