Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 12
Martha was busy serving while her sister Mary sat listening to Jesus, and Jesus said Mary had chosen the better part.
Who acts: Martha, sister, Jesus, Mary · What happens: be, serve, sit, listen, say, choose · To what, where: Jesus, better part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» 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 (Martha, sister, Jesus, Mary), 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 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | cop |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 busy | advcl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 sat | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | appos |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 serving | advcl |
| 10 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sat | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Jesus | case |
| 12 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 listening | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | conj |
| 17 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 chosen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chosen | aux |
| 19 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chosen | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Martha | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | serve | gerund | Martha not said here | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit | past | Martha's sister | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | Martha's sister not said here | Jesus | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to jesus=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | choose | past · perfect | Mary | the better part | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
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:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-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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