Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment, sentence 4
Christians point out that the Psalms are full of angry questions to God, and the vicar says God can take our anger and still loves us; people of every faith and none know these mixed feelings.
Who acts: Christians, Psalms, vicar, God, people, our · What happens: point out, be, say, take, love, know · To what, where: anger, us, mixed feelings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: anger, guilt and laughing at the wrong moment» 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, Psalms, vicar, God), 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 point | nsubj |
| 2 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 point | compound:prt |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 full | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Psalms | det |
| 6 | Psalms | psalm | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 full | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 point | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 questions | case |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 questions | amod |
| 11 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 God | case |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 questions | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 says | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vicar | det |
| 17 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 point | conj |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 says | ccomp |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 anger | nmod:poss |
| 23 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 loves | cc |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 loves | advmod |
| 26 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | conj |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 loves | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 know | punct |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 know | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 faith | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 faith | det |
| 32 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 people | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 none | cc |
| 34 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 32 faith | conj |
| 35 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 36 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 feelings | det |
| 37 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 feelings | amod |
| 38 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 know | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 point | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | present | Christians | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the Psalms | of angry questions to God; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the vicar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | can | God | our anger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | love | present | God not said here | us | still | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | know | infinitive | people of every faith | this mixed feelings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | anger | our | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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:067-grief-anger-guilt-and-laughing-at-the-wrong-moment.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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