The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 15
Jesus told people not to worry about tomorrow, because God feeds the birds and clothes the lilies of the field.
Who acts: Jesus, God · What happens: tell, not worry, feed, clothe · To what, where: people, birds, lilies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» 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 (Jesus, 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 worry | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 worry | mark |
| 6 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 tomorrow | case |
| 8 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeds | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 feeds | mark |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 feeds | nsubj |
| 12 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feeds | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clothes | cc |
| 16 | clothes | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 feeds | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lilies | det |
| 18 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clothes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 field | det |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lilies | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Jesus | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not worry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jesus not said here | tomorrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | God | the birds | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | clothe | present | God not said here | the lilies of the field | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=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:017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.lesson:15.
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): R5-strong ×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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