When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 15

The Bible tells Christians to «weep with those who weep»; Job's friends sat with him in silence for seven days before speaking.

Who acts: Bible, friends · What happens: tell, weep, sit, speak · To what, where: Christians, silence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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, friends), 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	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 tells	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 weep	mark
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 weep	punct
7	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tells	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 those	case
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 weep	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 weep	nsubj
11	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 those	acl:relcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 weep	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
14	Job	Job	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 friends	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Job	case
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 silence	case
21	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sat	obl
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 speaking	mark
26	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sat	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Bible	Christians				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent christian=Recipient clause=Topic
2	weep not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Bible not said here				with those	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep in a quote	present						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past	Job's friends		silence	day	with Bible	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location
5	speak speech: other	gerund	Job's friends not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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