What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 1
They believe God hears every prayer, but the answer may be yes, no or wait, the way a loving parent does not hand over everything a child asks for; prayer is a friendship, not a vending machine.
Who acts: Christians, God, loving parent, child, prayer · What happens: believe, hear, wait, not hand over, ask, be · To what, where: prayer, everything, friendship · 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, God, loving parent, child), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | nsubj |
| 4 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 prayer | det |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 may | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 may | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 may | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 yes | cop |
| 13 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 may | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 no | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 may | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 wait | cc |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 no | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 may | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 parent | det |
| 22 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 parent | amod |
| 23 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hand | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 hand | advmod |
| 26 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 everything | compound:prt |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 hand | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asks | nsubj |
| 31 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 everything | acl:relcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 asks | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 friendship | punct |
| 34 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 friendship | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 friendship | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 friendship | det |
| 37 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 machine | punct |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 machine | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 machine | det |
| 41 | vending | vend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 machine | compound |
| 42 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 friendship | conj |
| 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 | hear | present | God | every prayer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | Christians = christian not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not hand over | present · do-support | a loving parent | everything | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | a child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | prayer | a friendship and a vending machine | tree rules |
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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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