Getting old: how long people and animals live, sentence 3
The Bible says there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; Christians see old age as part of the life God gives, not a punishment, and every faith teaches respect for the old.
Who acts: Bible, time, Christians, God, faith · What happens: say, be, bear, die, see, give · To what, where: old age, punishment, respect · 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 (Bible, time, Christians, God), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 born | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 time | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | advcl |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 age | amod |
| 22 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 life | det |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 gives | nsubj |
| 29 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 life | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 punishment | punct |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 punishment | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 punishment | det |
| 33 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gives | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 teaches | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 teaches | cc |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 faith | det |
| 37 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 teaches | nsubj |
| 38 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 39 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 teaches | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 old | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 old | det |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 respect | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Bible | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | does | present | a time and a time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | a time and a time not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | a time and a time not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | see | present | Christians | old age | as part of the life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus as part=Attribute | |||
| 6 | give | present | God | a punishment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | ||||
| 7 | teach speech: other | present | every faith | respect | for the old | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=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:052-getting-old-how-long-people-and-animals-live.lesson:3.
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, R6-punct-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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