Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 6
A sacrament is a church ceremony Christians believe is an outward sign of God's grace.
Who acts: sacrament, Christians · What happens: be, believe · To what, where: church ceremony, outward sign · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sacrament, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sacrament | det |
| 2 | sacrament | sacrament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceremony | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceremony | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ceremony | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ceremony | compound |
| 6 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 believe | nsubj |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ceremony | acl:relcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sign | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sign | det |
| 11 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sign | amod |
| 12 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believe | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 grace | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 grace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 God | case |
| 16 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sign | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ceremony | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sacrament | a church ceremony | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | Christians | a church ceremony not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceremony=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a outward sign | of God's grace | 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:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.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): 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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