Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 14
"Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment" (Proverbs 12:19); if the truth is harmless, tell it.
Who acts: Truthful lips, lying tongue, truth · What happens: endure, lie, last, be, tell · To what, where: truth · 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 (Truthful lips, lying tongue, truth), 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 | _ | 4 endure | punct |
| 2 | Truthful | truthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lips | amod |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endure | nsubj |
| 4 | endure | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 endure | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lasts | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lasts | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tongue | det |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tongue | amod |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lasts | nsubj |
| 12 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endure | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 moment | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lasts | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 endure | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Proverbs | punct |
| 18 | Proverbs | Proverbs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 endure | parataxis |
| 19 | 12:19 | 12:19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Proverbs | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Proverbs | punct |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 harmless | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 harmless | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 harmless | cop |
| 26 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tell | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 harmless | punct |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 endure | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 endure | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure in a quote | present | Truthful lips | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | last in a quote | present | a lying tongue | moment | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the truth | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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