Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 11

Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against someone who deceives a neighbour and then says, "I was only joking!"; a joke both people get is not deception.

Who acts: Proverbs, I, people, joke · What happens: warn, deceive, say, joke, get, not be · To what, where: neighbour, joke, deception · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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, I, people, joke), 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	Proverbs	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 warns	nsubj
2	26:18-19	26:18-19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Proverbs	flat
3	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	against	against	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 warns	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 deceives	nsubj
7	deceives	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 neighbour	det
9	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deceives	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 says	advmod
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deceives	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 joking	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 joking	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 joking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 joking	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 joking	advmod
18	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 says	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 joking	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 joking	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 deception	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 joke	det
23	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deception	nsubj
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 people	det:predet
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 get	nsubj
26	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 joke	acl:relcl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 deception	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 deception	advmod
29	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warns	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	Proverbs			against someone	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against someone=Topic
2	deceive	present		a neighbour			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient
3	say speech: express	present			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	joke speech: other in a quote	past · progressive	I				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get	present	both people	a joke not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
6	not is a	present	a joke	deception			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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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