Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 16

Many Indigenous peoples, and the Shinto tradition of Japan, believe that nature has spirits; Christians believe God made nature and cares for it.

Who acts: Many Indigenous peoples, nature, Christians, God · What happens: believe, have, make, care · To what, where: spirits, nature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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 (Many Indigenous peoples, nature, Christians, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peoples	amod
2	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peoples	amod
3	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 believe	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tradition	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tradition	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tradition	det
7	Shinto	Shinto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tradition	compound
8	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peoples	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Japan	case
10	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tradition	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 peoples	punct
12	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 has	mark
14	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 believe	ccomp
16	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Christians	punct
18	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 believe	nsubj
19	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 has	parataxis
20	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 believe	ccomp
22	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cares	cc
24	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 made	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cares	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 believe	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	present	Many Indigenous peoples and the Shinto tradition of Japan			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	present	nature	spirits		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
3	believe	present	Christians			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	past	God	nature		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Product
5	care	present	God not said here		for nature	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

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:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:16.

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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