The church year, sentence 11
On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their forehead as a sign of saying sorry to God.
Who acts: Christians, sign · What happens: receive, say · To what, where: cross, forehead, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The church year» 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 (Christians, sign), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Ash | case |
| 2 | Ash | Ash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wednesday | compound |
| 3 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 Christians | det |
| 5 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 receive | nsubj |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cross | det |
| 8 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ashes | case |
| 10 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cross | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 forehead | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 13 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sign | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sign | det |
| 16 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 saying | mark |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 sign | acl |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saying | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 God | case |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sorry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | some Christians | a cross of ashes | Christians's forehead | wednesday | as a sign | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on forehead=Location | |
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a sign not said here | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
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:026-the-church-year.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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