Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?», sentence 4
Christians may pray at bedtime and trust God's love, the vicar says he trusts Jesus «who went through death and came out the other side», and people of every faith and none comfort children with honest answers and lots of hugs.
Who acts: Christians, vicar, Jesus, God · What happens: pray, trust, say, go, come out, love · To what, where: bedtime, love, Jesus, death, other side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bedtime fears: «Will you die, Mum?» and «Will I die?»» 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, vicar, Jesus, 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 | 3 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pray | aux |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 bedtime | case |
| 5 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pray | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trust | cc |
| 7 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | conj |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 love | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 God | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trust | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vicar | det |
| 13 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pray | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trusts | nsubj |
| 16 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 17 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 trusts | obj |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Jesus | acl:relcl |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 side | amod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 people | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 people | cc |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 faith | case |
| 34 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 faith | det |
| 35 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 people | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 children | cc |
| 37 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 35 faith | conj |
| 38 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 children | compound |
| 39 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 faith | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 answers | case |
| 41 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 answers | amod |
| 42 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 comfort | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 lots | cc |
| 44 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 answers | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 hugs | case |
| 46 | hugs | hug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 lots | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | may | Christians | bedtime | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | trust | infinitive | Christians not said here | God's love | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the vicar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | trust | present | vicar | Jesus | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | past | Jesus | death | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through death=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | come out in a quote | past | Jesus not said here | the other side | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 7 | love | God | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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.
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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 ×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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