Animals, sentence 1
Christians believe God made the animals and saw that they were good, and gave people the job of caring for them, not spoiling them; St Francis of Assisi even called animals his brothers and sisters.
Who acts: Christians, God, Animals, job, St Francis · What happens: believe, make, see, be, give, care · To what, where: animals, job, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals» 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, God, Animals, job), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 good | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 good | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 job | det |
| 18 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 caring | mark |
| 20 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 job | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caring | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spoiling | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 spoiling | advmod |
| 25 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 caring | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 spoiling | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Francis | punct |
| 28 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Francis | compound |
| 29 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 called | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Assisi | case |
| 31 | Assisi | Assisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Francis | nmod |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 called | advmod |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 34 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 called | obj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 animals | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sisters | cc |
| 38 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 brothers | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | past | God | the animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product | ||||
| 3 | see | past | God not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Animals = animal | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | past | God not said here | the job | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient job=Theme | |||
| 6 | care | gerund | the job not said here | for Animals = animal | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not spoil | gerund | the job not said here | Animals = animal | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | call | past | St Francis of Assisi | animals Francis's brothers and sisters | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |
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:046-animals.lesson:1.
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 ×4. 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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