Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 9

Muslims say «Alhamdulillah», which means «praise be to God», when good things happen; Jews say blessings called brachot; Christians may say «Thanks be to God».

Who acts: Muslims, Alhamdulillah, good things, Jews, blessings, Christians · What happens: say, mean, be, happen, call · To what, where: Alhamdulillah, praise, God, blessings, brachot · 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 (Muslims, Alhamdulillah, good things, 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	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Alhamdulillah	punct
4	Alhamdulillah	Alhamdulillah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Alhamdulillah	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Alhamdulillah	acl:relcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 praise	punct
10	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 praise	cop
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 God	case
13	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 praise	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 God	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happen	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 happen	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 happen	nsubj
19	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
21	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 say	nsubj
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
23	blessings	blessing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 say	obj
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 blessings	acl
25	brachot	brachot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
27	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 say	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 say	aux
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	parataxis
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
31	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 be	nsubj
32	be	be	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 say	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 God	case
34	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 be	obl
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Muslims	Alhamdulillah		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent alhamdulillah=Topic
2	mean	present	Alhamdulillah			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		praise	God	tree rules
4	happen	present	good things			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	Jews	blessings		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic
6	call	participle	blessings not said here	brachot		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	may	Christians			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	be in a quote	infinitive	Thanks		God	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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): R6-punct-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.

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