Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 7

Many people believe each person has a soul, the part that thinks, loves and is really «them»; it cannot be seen like a heart or brain.

Who acts: Many people, person, part · What happens: believe, have, think, love, be, not see · To what, where: soul, people, person · 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 people, person, part), 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	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soul	det
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 part	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soul	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 thinks	nsubj
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 part	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loves	punct
15	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thinks	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 them	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 them	cop
18	really	really	ADV	_	20 them	advmod
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 them	punct
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thinks	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 them	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj:pass
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 seen	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	aux:pass
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 believe	parataxis
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 heart	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 heart	det
30	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 brain	cc
32	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heart	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	present	Many people			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	present	each person	a soul		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
3	think speech: other	present	the part			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	love	present	the part not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present	the part not said here	people		tree rules
6	not see	can · passive		person	like a heart or brain	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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