What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 0

Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or together: saying thank you, saying sorry, asking for others and asking for ourselves.

Who acts: Christians, prayer · What happens: believe, talk, listen, say, thank, ask · To what, where: God, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» 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, prayer), 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	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 believe	nsubj
2	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talking	aux
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 believe	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 listening	cc
7	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 talking	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 God	case
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 listening	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 alone	punct
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 listening	advmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 together	cc
13	together	together	ADV	_	11 alone	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 talking	conj
16	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thank	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saying	conj
20	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	19 saying	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asking	punct
22	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saying	parataxis
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 others	case
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 asking	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asking	cc
26	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 asking	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 ourselves	case
28	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 asking	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe	present	Christians			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	talk	present · progressive	prayer			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	gerund	prayer not said here	God	alone property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to god=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	prayer not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	prayer not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	ask speech: ask	gerund			for others	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	ask speech: ask	gerund			for ourselves	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:0.

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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