What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sentence 9

Pictures like a shamrock (a little clover with three leaves on one stem), or water as ice, liquid and steam, help explain the Trinity, but every picture falls short.

Who acts: Pictures, picture · What happens: help, explain, fall · To what, where: Trinity

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 (Pictures, picture), 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	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 help	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 shamrock	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shamrock	det
4	shamrock	shamrock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pictures	nmod
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 clover	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clover	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clover	amod
8	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shamrock	appos
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 leaves	nummod
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clover	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stem	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 stem	nummod
14	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	nmod
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 clover	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 water	cc
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shamrock	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 ice	case
20	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 water	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 liquid	punct
22	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ice	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 steam	cc
24	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 liquid	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
26	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 help	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Trinity	det
29	Trinity	trinity	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 explain	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 falls	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 falls	cc
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 picture	det
33	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 falls	nsubj
34	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 help	conj
35	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 falls	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	Pictures like a shamrock or water as ice and liquid and steam			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	infinitive	Pictures like a shamrock or water as ice and liquid and steam not said here	the Trinity		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trinity=Topic
3	fall	present	every picture		short property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:9.

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 ×2, 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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