The Ten Commandments, sentence 8
The commandment against idols forbids making carved images to worship; Orthodox and Catholics use icons and statues to help prayer, while some Protestants avoid them, so this point is disputed.
Who acts: commandment, Orthodox, Protestants · What happens: forbid, make, carve, worship, used, help · To what, where: carved images, icons, prayer, Commandments, point
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Ten Commandments» 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 (commandment, Orthodox, Protestants), 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 commandment | det |
| 2 | commandment | commandment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forbids | nsubj |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 idols | case |
| 4 | idols | idol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 commandment | nmod |
| 5 | forbids | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 forbids | xcomp |
| 7 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 images | amod |
| 8 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 worship | mark |
| 10 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 making | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Orthodox | punct |
| 12 | Orthodox | orthodox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Catholics | cc |
| 14 | Catholics | Catholic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Orthodox | conj |
| 15 | use | used | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forbids | parataxis |
| 16 | icons | icon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 use | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 statues | cc |
| 18 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 icons | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 use | advcl |
| 21 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 avoid | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 avoid | mark |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 Protestants | det |
| 25 | Protestants | Protestant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 avoid | nsubj |
| 26 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 use | advcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 avoid | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 disputed | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 disputed | advmod |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 point | det |
| 31 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 disputed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 disputed | aux:pass |
| 33 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 forbids | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forbids | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | present | the commandment against idols | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | the commandment against idols not said here | carved images | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset image=Product | ||||
| 3 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | worship | to-infinitive | the commandment against idols not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | used | present | Orthodox and Catholics | icons and statues | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | Orthodox and Catholics not said here | prayer | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | avoid | present | some Protestants | Commandments = commandment | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location | ||||
| 8 | dispute | present · passive | this point | 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:007-the-ten-commandments.lesson:8.
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 ×3. 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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