Joseph and his brothers, sentence 5
Above all, forgiveness is stronger than revenge, and Christians believe God can bring good even out of the bad things people do.
Who acts: forgiveness, Christians, God, people · What happens: be, believe, bring, do · 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 (forgiveness, Christians, God, people), 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 | Above | above | ADV | _ | 6 stronger | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 1 Above | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stronger | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stronger | cop |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 revenge | case |
| 8 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stronger | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 believe | cc |
| 11 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stronger | conj |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 things | det |
| 21 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bring | obl |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 things | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | forgiveness | than revenge; above, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bring | can | God | good | the bad things | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent good=Theme out thing=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | do | present | people | the bad things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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:5.
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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