Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 3
Christians are told to go to a friend privately first (Matthew 18:15) and to "encourage one another and build each other up" (1 Thessalonians 5:11), so honesty and love travel together.
Who acts: Christians, 1 Thessalonians · What happens: tell, go, encourage, build up, travel · To what, where: Christians, one, each · 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 (Christians, 1 Thessalonians), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 go | advmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Matthew | punct |
| 12 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 13 | 18:15 | 18:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Matthew | flat |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Matthew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 encourage | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 encourage | mark |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 encourage | punct |
| 18 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 encourage | obj |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 one | fixed |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 build | cc |
| 22 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 encourage | conj |
| 23 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 build | obj |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 each | fixed |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 build | compound:prt |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 encourage | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 Thessalonians | punct |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 Thessalonians | nummod |
| 29 | Thessalonians | thessalonian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 travel | nsubj |
| 30 | 5:11 | 5:11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 Thessalonians | flat |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 Thessalonians | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 travel | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 travel | advmod |
| 34 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 travel | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 love | cc |
| 36 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 honesty | conj |
| 37 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 38 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 travel | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Christians | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Christians not said here | to a friend; first, privately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to friend=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | encourage in a quote | to-infinitive | Christians not said here | one | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build up in a quote | infinitive | Christians not said here | each | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer each=Patient | ||||
| 5 | travel | present | 1 Thessalonians | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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, R6-punct-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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