The church year, sentence 4
For a child today the church year is a calendar that teaches: waiting, giving, saying sorry, thanking God at harvest and learning from saints all come round again each year.
Who acts: church year, calendar · What happens: be, teach, wait, give, say, thank · To what, where: calendar, God, harvest, saints · 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 (church year, calendar), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calendar | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 year | compound |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calendar | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 calendar | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 calendar | det |
| 10 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 teaches | nsubj |
| 12 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 calendar | acl:relcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 come | punct |
| 14 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 come | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 giving | punct |
| 16 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 waiting | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 waiting | conj |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saying | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thanking | punct |
| 21 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 waiting | conj |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 thanking | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 harvest | case |
| 24 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thanking | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 learning | cc |
| 26 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 waiting | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 saints | case |
| 28 | saints | saint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 learning | obl |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 teaches | conj |
| 31 | round | round | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 come | advmod |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 year | det |
| 34 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 come | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 calendar | 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 | the church year | a calendar | for a child today | tree rules | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present | a calendar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: apologize | gerund | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | gerund | God | harvest | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 7 | learn | gerund | saints | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from saint=Source | |||||
| 8 | come round | present | again; year | all, round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:026-the-church-year.lesson:4.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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