What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 6
Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or with others.
Who acts: Christians, prayer · What happens: believe, talk, listen · To what, where: God · 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 | _ | 14 others | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 alone | conj |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | 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 |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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