Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 13
Proverbs 16:28 says, "A gossip separates close friends": passing on what you were told in trust is a kind of dishonesty.
Who acts: Proverbs, gossip, passing · What happens: say, separate, pass on, tell, be · To what, where: close friends, you, trust, kind · 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 (Proverbs, gossip, passing), 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 | Proverbs | proverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | 16:28 | 16:28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Proverbs | flat |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 separates | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gossip | det |
| 7 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 separates | nsubj |
| 8 | separates | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friends | amod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 separates | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 separates | punct |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 kind | punct |
| 13 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 kind | csubj |
| 14 | on | on | PART | _ | 13 passing | compound:prt |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 told | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 told | aux:pass |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 passing | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 trust | case |
| 20 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 kind | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kind | det |
| 23 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dishonesty | case |
| 25 | dishonesty | dishonesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kind | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Proverbs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | separate in a quote | present | a gossip | close friends | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass on | gerund | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | you | trust | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | passing | a kind | of dishonesty | tree rules |
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:13.
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, 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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