Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 2

Many churches baptise babies, with parents and godparents making promises, because God's love comes before we understand it; Baptists and many Pentecostals baptise only people old enough to choose, usually by full immersion; both sides give serious reasons.

Who acts: Many churches, parents, love, we, Baptists, sides · What happens: baptise, make, come, understand, choose, give · To what, where: babies, promises, Church, people, serious reasons

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 (Many churches, parents, love, we), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 churches	amod
2	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 baptise	nsubj
3	baptise	baptise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 baptise	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 making	punct
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 making	mark
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 godparents	cc
9	godparents	godparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 parents	conj
10	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 baptise	advcl
11	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 making	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 comes	mark
14	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 love	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 God	case
16	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 baptise	parataxis
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 understand	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 understand	nsubj
20	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 comes	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 understand	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 baptise	punct
23	Baptists	baptist	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 baptise	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Pentecostals	cc
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Pentecostals	amod
26	Pentecostals	pentecostal	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 Baptists	conj
27	baptise	baptise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 baptise	parataxis
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 people	advmod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 baptise	obj
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 old	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 choose	mark
33	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 old	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 immersion	punct
35	usually	usually	ADV	_	38 immersion	advmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 immersion	case
37	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 immersion	amod
38	immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 baptise	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
40	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	41 sides	det
41	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 give	nsubj
42	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 baptise	parataxis
43	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 reasons	amod
44	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 give	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 baptise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	baptise	present	Many churches	babies		tree rules
2	make	gerund	parents and godparents	promises		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
3	come	present	God's love			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	understand	present	we	Church		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	baptise	present	Baptists and many Pentecostals	people	by full immersion	tree rules
6	choose	to-infinitive	Baptists and many Pentecostals not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	give	present	both sides	serious reasons		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
8	love		God			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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