The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 4

Jesus says his followers are salt and light: they should make the world better and let their good deeds be seen, not for their own praise but so that people give glory to God.

Who acts: Jesus, followers, good deeds, people · What happens: say, be, make, let, see, give · To what, where: salt, world, good deeds, glory, God · 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, followers, good deeds, people), 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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 followers	nmod:poss
4	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 salt	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 salt	cop
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 light	cc
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salt	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 make	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 deeds	nmod:poss
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 deeds	amod
20	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 let	obj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 seen	aux:pass
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 let	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 praise	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 praise	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 praise	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 praise	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 praise	amod
28	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seen	obl
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 so	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	12 make	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 give	mark
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 give	nsubj
33	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 so	advcl
34	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 God	case
36	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 give	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Jesus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Jesus's followers	salt and light			tree rules
3	make	should	followers = follower	the world		good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset world=Product
4	let	infinitive	followers = follower not said here	followers's good deeds			tree rules
5	see	infinitive · passive	followers's good deeds not said here			for followers's own praise	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
6	give	present	people	glory	God		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent glory=Theme to god=Recipient
7	praise		followers = follower				nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: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): 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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