Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 16
Jesus taught that visiting someone in need is like visiting him; Christians and people of many faiths visit the old and lonely.
Who acts: Jesus, Christians · What happens: teach, visit, be · To what, where: someone, need, old · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting old: how long people and animals live» 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 (Jesus, 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 visiting | mark |
| 4 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 visiting | nsubj |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 visiting | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 need | case |
| 7 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 someone | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 visiting | cop |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 visiting | mark |
| 10 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 taught | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 visiting | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Christians | punct |
| 13 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 visit | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 people | cc |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Christians | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 faiths | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faiths | amod |
| 18 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 taught | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 old | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 visit | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lonely | cc |
| 23 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 old | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | Jesus | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | someone | need | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | visit property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | visit | present | Christians and people of many faiths | the old | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Co-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:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.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): 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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