What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sentence 1
They believe this one God is known in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit; this is called the Trinity, and Christians admit it is a mystery too big to explain fully.
Who acts: Christians, Trinity · What happens: believe, know, call, admit, be, explain · To what, where: one God, this, mystery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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, Trinity), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 God | det |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 God | nummod |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 persons | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 persons | nummod |
| 10 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Father | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Father | det |
| 13 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 persons | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Son | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Son | det |
| 16 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Father | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jesus | punct |
| 18 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Son | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jesus | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Spirit | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Spirit | det |
| 22 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Spirit | flat |
| 23 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Father | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 called | punct |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Trinity | det |
| 29 | Trinity | trinity | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 admit | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 admit | cc |
| 32 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 admit | nsubj |
| 33 | admit | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 mystery | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 mystery | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mystery | det |
| 37 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 admit | ccomp |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 big | advmod |
| 39 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mystery | amod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 explain | mark |
| 41 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 big | advcl |
| 42 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 41 explain | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians = christian | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | this one God | in three persons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | present | Christians | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Trinity | a mystery | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | Trinity not said here | fully property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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