Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 8
Christians say grace before meals and thank God for big and small things; many Jews and Muslims also give thanks at meals.
Who acts: Christians, many Jews · What happens: say, thank, give · To what, where: grace, God, thanks, meals · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» 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, many Jews), 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 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | obj |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 meals | case |
| 5 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thank | cc |
| 7 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thank | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 things | case |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 small | cc |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 big | conj |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thank | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Jews | amod |
| 16 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 give | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Muslims | cc |
| 18 | Muslims | Muslim | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Jews | conj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 give | advmod |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | conj |
| 21 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 give | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 meals | case |
| 23 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | 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 | say speech: assert | present | Christians | grace | before meals | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | Christians not said here | God | for big things | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for thing=Attribute | |||
| 3 | give | present | many Jews and Muslims | thanks | meals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme at meal=Asset |
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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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