Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 8
Christians believe God gives each person a soul that lives on after death.
Who acts: Christians, God, soul · What happens: believe, give, live on · To what, where: soul, 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 (Christians, God, soul), 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 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soul | det |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 soul | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lives | compound:prt |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lives | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give | present | God | a soul | each person | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient soul=Theme | |||
| 3 | live on | present | a soul | after death | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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. 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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