Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 6
An old saying goes: trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback.
Who acts: old saying, trust · What happens: go, arrive, leave · To what, where: foot, horseback
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 (old saying, trust), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 saying | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saying | amod |
| 3 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrives | punct |
| 6 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrives | nsubj |
| 7 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrives | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leaves | cc |
| 11 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrives | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 horseback | case |
| 13 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a old saying | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrive | present | trust | foot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | trust not said here | horseback | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on horseback=Location |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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