Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 12
Baptists and many Pentecostal churches baptise people old enough to decide, usually by full immersion, which means going right under the water.
Who acts: Baptists, full immersion · What happens: baptise, decide, mean, go · To what, where: people, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» 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 (Baptists, full immersion), 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 | Baptists | baptist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 baptise | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 churches | cc |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 churches | amod |
| 4 | Pentecostal | pentecostal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 churches | amod |
| 5 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Baptists | conj |
| 6 | baptise | baptise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 baptise | obj |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 old | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 decide | mark |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 old | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 immersion | punct |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 immersion | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 immersion | case |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 immersion | amod |
| 16 | immersion | immersion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 baptise | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 immersion | acl:relcl |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 means | xcomp |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 24 water | advmod |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 baptise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | baptise | present | Baptists and many Pentecostal churches | people | by full immersion | tree rules | |||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | Baptists and many Pentecostal churches not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | full immersion | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | gerund | full immersion not said here | the water | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location |
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:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.lesson:12.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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