Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 11
A small debt carries a big trust; Psalm 37:21 says, "The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously."
Who acts: small debt, Psalm, wicked, righteous · What happens: carry, say, borrow, not repay, give · To what, where: big trust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (small debt, Psalm, wicked, righteous), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 debt | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 debt | amod |
| 3 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | nsubj |
| 4 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trust | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trust | amod |
| 7 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 9 | Psalm | Psalm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 10 | 37:21 | 37:21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Psalm | flat |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carries | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wicked | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wicked | det |
| 15 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 borrow | nsubj |
| 16 | borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 repay | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 repay | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 repay | advmod |
| 20 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 borrow | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 righteous | det |
| 24 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 give | nsubj |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 borrow | conj |
| 26 | generously | generously | ADV | _ | 25 give | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | a small debt | a big trust | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Psalm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | borrow in a quote | present | the wicked | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not repay in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the wicked not said here | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present | the righteous | generously property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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