Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 20
Monks and nuns live in communities devoted to prayer and service, with vows of poverty (owning nothing of their own), chastity (not marrying) and obedience (doing as their leaders say).
Who acts: Monks, poverty, obedience, leaders · What happens: live, devote, own, not marry, do, say · To what, where: communities, prayer, nothing, poverty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 (Monks, poverty, obedience, leaders), 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 | Monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nuns | cc |
| 3 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Monks | conj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 communities | case |
| 6 | communities | community | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 communities | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 prayer | case |
| 9 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 devoted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 service | cc |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prayer | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vows | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 vows | case |
| 14 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 poverty | case |
| 16 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vows | nmod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 owning | punct |
| 18 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 poverty | acl |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 owning | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 own | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 own | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 owning | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chastity | punct |
| 25 | chastity | chastity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poverty | conj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 marrying | punct |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 marrying | advmod |
| 28 | marrying | marry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 25 chastity | parataxis |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 marrying | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 obedience | cc |
| 31 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chastity | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 doing | punct |
| 33 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 obedience | acl |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 say | mark |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 leaders | nmod:poss |
| 36 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 say | nsubj |
| 37 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 doing | advcl |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 marrying | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Monks and nuns | communities | with vows of poverty and chastity and obedience | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in community=Location | |||
| 2 | devote | participle | communities not said here | to prayer and service goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to prayer=Goal | ||||
| 3 | own | gerund | poverty and chastity and obedience not said here | nothing | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not marry | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | do | gerund | obedience not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | monks's leaders | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | vow | poverty and chastity and obedience | nom vow «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:20.
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 ×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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