How to argue: counter-arguments and respect, sentence 17
The Bible says "be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (James 1:19).
Who acts: Bible · What happens: say, be, listen, speak, become · To what, where: James · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to argue: counter-arguments and respect» 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 (Bible), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 listen | mark |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quick | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slow | punct |
| 10 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quick | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 speak | mark |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 slow | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slow | cc |
| 14 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 slow | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 become | mark |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 slow | xcomp |
| 17 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 become | xcomp |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 James | punct |
| 20 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl |
| 21 | 1:19 | 1:19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 James | flat |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 James | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Bible | James | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | become in a quote | to-infinitive | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:040-how-to-argue-counter-arguments-and-respect.lesson:17.
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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