Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 3
Many Protestant and Anglican churches have women ministers and bishops, while Catholic and Orthodox churches ordain only men as priests; Christians read the Bible differently here and each side gives reasons.
Who acts: Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches, Christians, side · What happens: have, ordain, read, give · To what, where: women, men, Bible, reasons
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 (Many Protestant churches, Catholic churches, Christians, side), 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 | 5 churches | amod |
| 2 | Protestant | protestant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 churches | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Anglican | cc |
| 4 | Anglican | anglican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Protestant | conj |
| 5 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 women | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bishops | cc |
| 10 | bishops | bishop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ministers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ordain | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 ordain | mark |
| 13 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 churches | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Orthodox | cc |
| 15 | Orthodox | orthodox | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Catholic | conj |
| 16 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ordain | nsubj |
| 17 | ordain | ordain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | advcl |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 men | advmod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ordain | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 priests | case |
| 21 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ordain | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 read | punct |
| 23 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 read | nsubj |
| 24 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Bible | det |
| 26 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 read | obj |
| 27 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 28 here | advmod |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 read | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gives | cc |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 side | det |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gives | nsubj |
| 32 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 read | conj |
| 33 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 gives | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many Protestant churches | women and ministers and bishops | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ordain | present | Catholic churches | men | as priests | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme as priest=Attribute | |||
| 3 | read | past | Christians | the Bible | here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bible=Topic | |||
| 4 | give | present | each side | reasons | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:3.
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 ×4, 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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