Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 8

Saying "I'm about to" just to get someone off your back misleads them; James warns against confident talk about plans (James 4:13-15).

Who acts: I, Saying, James · What happens: say, be, get, mislead, warn · To what, where: someone, clouds · 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 (I, Saying, James), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 misleads	csubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Saying	advcl
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 get	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
15	misleads	mislead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 misleads	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 warns	punct
18	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 warns	nsubj
19	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 misleads	parataxis
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 talk	case
21	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 talk	amod
22	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 warns	obl
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 plans	case
24	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 talk	nmod
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 James	punct
26	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 warns	parataxis
27	4:13-15	4:13-15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 James	flat
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 James	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 misleads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	I		about property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive		someone	off your back	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
4	mislead	present	Saying	clouds = cloud		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	warn speech: warn	present	James		against confident talk about plans	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against talk=Topic

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:8.

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 ×3. 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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