Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 4
Christians pray for people killed in accidents and war and for their families; many churches help refugees, remembering that Jesus said «I was a stranger and you welcomed me», and people of all faiths and none work for peace.
Who acts: Christians, many churches, Jesus, you, people · What happens: pray, kill, help, remember, say, be · To what, where: people, accidents, refugees, stranger, Jesus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» 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 churches, Jesus, you), 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 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pray | obl |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 people | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 accidents | case |
| 7 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 war | cc |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accidents | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 families | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 families | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 families | nmod:poss |
| 13 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 war | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 churches | amod |
| 16 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 help | nsubj |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pray | parataxis |
| 18 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remembering | punct |
| 20 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 help | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 said | mark |
| 22 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 remembering | ccomp |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 stranger | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 stranger | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stranger | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stranger | det |
| 28 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 welcomed | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 welcomed | nsubj |
| 31 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stranger | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 welcomed | obj |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 stranger | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 people | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 people | cc |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 accidents | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 faiths | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 faiths | det |
| 39 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 people | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 none | cc |
| 41 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 39 faiths | conj |
| 42 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 people | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 peace | case |
| 44 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 work | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | Christians | for people | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | participle | people not said here | accidents and war and people's families and people of all faiths | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | help | present | many churches | refugees | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refugee=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | remember | gerund | many churches not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | Jesus | a stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | welcome in a quote | past | you | Jesus | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 8 | work | present | people of all faiths not said here | for peace | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for peace=Beneficiary |
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:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:4.
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, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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