Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people, sentence 16
The Bible tells Christians to «look after orphans and widows», and many faiths run charities for children without parents.
Who acts: Bible, many faiths · What happens: tell, look, run · To what, where: Christians, charities · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people» 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 (Bible, many faiths), 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 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Christians | christian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tells | xcomp |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 orphans | case |
| 9 | orphans | orphan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 widows | cc |
| 11 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 orphans | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 run | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 run | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faiths | amod |
| 16 | faiths | faith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 run | nsubj |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tells | conj |
| 18 | charities | charity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 run | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 children | case |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 charities | nmod |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 parents | case |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 children | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | 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 | tell speech: assert | present | the Bible | Christians | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent christian=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Bible not said here | after orphans and widows | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | present | many faiths | charities | for children without parents | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent charity=Product for child=Beneficiary |
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:075-is-it-fair-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people.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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