Living well because life is short, sentence 5
Old sayings carry the same wisdom: «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» (from the Bible) means make up before bed; «a good innings» (from cricket) means a long, full life; a gravestone that says only «She loved and was loved» says what lasts.
Who acts: Old sayings, sun, good innings, gravestone, Paul, your · What happens: carry, not let, go down, means, make up, mean · To what, where: same wisdom, sun, Bible, anger, long full life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» 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 (Old sayings, sun, good innings, gravestone), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sayings | amod |
| 2 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wisdom | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wisdom | amod |
| 6 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 9 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 let | advmod |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 anger | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 anger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bible | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Bible | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Bible | det |
| 23 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bible | punct |
| 25 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | parataxis |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 means | xcomp |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 make | compound:prt |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 bed | case |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 means | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 innings | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 innings | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 innings | amod |
| 34 | innings | inning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 means | nsubj |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 innings | punct |
| 36 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 cricket | punct |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 cricket | case |
| 38 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 innings | nmod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 cricket | punct |
| 40 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 life | det |
| 42 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 life | amod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 long | punct |
| 44 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 life | amod |
| 45 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 means | obj |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 gravestone | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 gravestone | det |
| 48 | gravestone | gravestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 means | conj |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 says | nsubj |
| 50 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 gravestone | acl:relcl |
| 51 | only | only | ADV | _ | 54 loved | advmod |
| 52 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 54 loved | punct |
| 53 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 loved | nsubj |
| 54 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 says | ccomp |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 loved | cc |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 loved | aux:pass |
| 57 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 loved | conj |
| 58 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 54 loved | punct |
| 59 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 says | conj |
| 60 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 61 lasts | nsubj |
| 61 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 59 says | ccomp |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | 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 | carry | present | Old sayings | the same wisdom | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the sun | the Bible | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go down in a quote | infinitive | the sun not said here | your anger | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on anger=Location | |||
| 4 | means | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | make up | infinitive | before bed | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | a good innings from cricket | a long full life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | present | a gravestone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | love in a quote | past | Paul | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | love in a quote | past · passive | Paul not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF» | |||||
| 10 | say speech: assert | present | a gravestone not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 11 | last | present | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 12 | anger in a quote | your | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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.
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:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.lesson:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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