Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 11
"Those who flatter their neighbours are spreading nets for their feet" (Proverbs 29:5); empty praise can make people overconfident.
Who acts: Those, empty praise · What happens: flatter, spread, make · To what, where: neighbours, nets, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» 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 (Those, empty praise), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 spreading | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 spreading | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 flatter | nsubj |
| 4 | flatter | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flatter | obj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spreading | aux |
| 8 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 make | parataxis |
| 9 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spreading | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | feet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spreading | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 feet | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Proverbs | punct |
| 15 | Proverbs | Proverbs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 spreading | parataxis |
| 16 | 29:5 | 29:5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Proverbs | nmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Proverbs | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 praise | punct |
| 19 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 praise | amod |
| 20 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | overconfident | overconfident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 make | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flatter in a quote | present | Acts's neighbours | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neighbour=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spread in a quote | present · progressive | Those | nets | for Acts's feet | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | can | empty praise | people | overconfident property | 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:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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): 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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