White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 14
Christians are asked to "give thanks in all circumstances" (1 Thessalonians 5:18): gratitude is owed for the giving, whatever the gift.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: ask, give, owe · To what, where: Christians, thanks, circumstances, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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), 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 | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | aux:pass |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 circumstances | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 circumstances | det |
| 10 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 circumstances | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 1 | punct |
| 13 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 thanks | parataxis |
| 14 | Thessalonians | Thessalonians | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 1 | flat |
| 15 | 5:18 | 5:18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Thessalonians | flat |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 1 | punct |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 owed | punct |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 owed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 owed | aux:pass |
| 20 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thanks | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 giving | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 giving | det |
| 23 | giving | giving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 owed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 whatever | punct |
| 25 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Rel | 27 gift | det |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gift | det |
| 27 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 owed | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | Christians | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Christians not said here | thanks | all circumstances | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | |||
| 3 | owe | present · passive | gratitude | for the giving goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for giving=Goal |
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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:14.
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. 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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