Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 4

For a child today these stories mean: welcome the newcomer, be loyal to friends when it costs you, use the gifts you have instead of copying others, and do not take revenge even when you could.

Who acts: stories, newcomer, you · What happens: mean, welcome, be, cost, use, have · To what, where: newcomer, you, gifts, others, revenge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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 (stories, newcomer, you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	obl
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 child	nmod:unmarked
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mean	nsubj
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 welcome	punct
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mean	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 newcomer	det
11	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 welcome	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 loyal	punct
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 loyal	cop
14	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 welcome	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 friends	case
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 loyal	obl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 costs	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 costs	nsubj
19	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 welcome	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 costs	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 use	punct
22	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 welcome	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gifts	det
24	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 gifts	acl:relcl
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	22 use	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 copying	case
29	copying	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 use	obl
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 copying	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 take	cc
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 take	advmod
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 welcome	conj
36	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
37	even	even	ADV	_	35 take	advmod
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 could	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 could	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 take	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	this stories		for a child today	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	welcome	infinitive		the newcomer		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newcomer=Theme
3	is	infinitive			to friends; loyal property	tree rules
4	cost	present	newcomer	you		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value
5	use	infinitive		the gifts	instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
6	have	present	you	the gifts not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
7	copy	gerund		others		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
8	not take	infinitive · do-support		revenge		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=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:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:4.

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): 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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