Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 16
Christians believe in "speaking the truth in love" (Ephesians 4:15): honest words said gently and with care.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: believe, speak, say · To what, where: truth, love, honest words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 speaking | mark |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Ephesians | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ephesians | punct |
| 12 | Ephesians | ephesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | conj |
| 13 | 4:15 | 4:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Ephesians | flat |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ephesians | punct |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 words | acl |
| 19 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 care | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 care | case |
| 22 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gently | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | 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 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | gerund | the truth | love | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | participle | honest words not said here | gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:16.
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 ×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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