Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 16

Jesus said not one sparrow falls without God knowing, and that a seed must fall into the ground and die to make many seeds.

Who acts: Jesus, one sparrow, seed · What happens: say, fall, know, die, make · To what, where: ground, many seeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» 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, one sparrow, seed), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sparrow	nummod
5	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	nsubj
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 God	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 falls	obl
9	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 falls	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fall	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fall	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 seed	det
14	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 falls	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 die	cc
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fall	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 die	advcl
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seeds	amod
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jesus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	present	one sparrow		without God	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	gerund	one sparrow not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	fall	must	a seed		into the ground result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ground=Result
5	die	infinitive	a seed not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	make	to-infinitive	a seed not said here	many seeds		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=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:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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