What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 18
Christians say what heaven is like is beyond description; wings, harps and clouds are only pictures from paintings and cartoons.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: say, be · To what, where: pictures, paintings · 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), 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 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 description | nsubj |
| 4 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 description | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 description | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 description | case |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 description | cop |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 description | case |
| 9 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wings | punct |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 description | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harps | punct |
| 13 | harps | harp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wings | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clouds | cc |
| 15 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harps | conj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 pictures | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 pictures | advmod |
| 18 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 paintings | case |
| 20 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pictures | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cartoons | cc |
| 22 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 paintings | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Christians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | like description and wings and harps and clouds | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Christians not said here | pictures | paintings and cartoons | 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:18.
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, 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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