What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven, sentence 8
Christians believe God hears every prayer, but the answer may be yes, no or wait.
Who acts: Christians, God · What happens: believe, hear, wait · To what, where: prayer · 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), 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 | 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 | _ | 13 yes | 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 | 13 yes | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 yes | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 yes | cop |
| 13 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 hears | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 no | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 yes | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 wait | cc |
| 17 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 yes | conj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 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 | God not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:8.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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