Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 16
Christians believe God cannot lie (Titus 1:2) and Jesus called himself "the way and the truth and the life" (John 14:6).
Who acts: Christians, God, Jesus · What happens: believe, not lie, call · To what, where: Jesus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» 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, Jesus), 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 | 6 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 lie | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lie | advmod |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Titus | punct |
| 8 | Titus | Titus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 9 | 1:2 | 1:2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Titus | flat |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Titus | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 12 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 called | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 truth | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truth | det |
| 20 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 life | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 John | punct |
| 26 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 way | parataxis |
| 27 | 14:6 | 14:6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 John | flat |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 John | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | not lie | can | God | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | past | Jesus | Jesus | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.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): R6-punct-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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