The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye, sentence 17
The Bible does not say clearly whether animals go to heaven; Christians differ, some faiths believe in rebirth, and some people believe death is the end.
Who acts: Bible, animals, Christians, faiths, people, death · What happens: not say, go, differ, believe, be · To what, where: heaven, rebirth, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye» 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, animals, Christians, faiths), 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 | 5 say | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 5 say | advmod |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 differ | punct |
| 13 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 differ | nsubj |
| 14 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 believe | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 faiths | det |
| 17 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 believe | nsubj |
| 18 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 differ | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rebirth | case |
| 20 | rebirth | rebirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 believe | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 believe | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 believe | cc |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 believe | nsubj |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 believe | conj |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 end | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 believe | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | the Bible | clearly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present | animals | heaven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | differ | present | Christians | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | believe | present | some faiths | rebirth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | believe | present | some people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | death | the end | tree rules |
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:056-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye.lesson:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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