Joseph and his brothers, sentence 17
Christians believe God can bring good even out of bad things people do; this does not make the bad things right.
Who acts: Christians, God, people, this · What happens: believe, bring, do, not make · To what, where: good, bad things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Joseph and his brothers» 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, people, this), 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 | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 bring | advmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | obl |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 make | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 make | advmod |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 things | det |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | 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 | bring | can | God | good | bad things | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent good=Theme out thing=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | do | present | people | bad things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not make | present · do-support | this | the bad things | right property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
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:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.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): no change. 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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