Keeping promises, sentence 10
"It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:5).
What happens: be, not make, make, not fulfil · To what, where: vow, one, promise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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: 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 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | well | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vow | det |
| 9 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | advcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fulfil | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fulfil | advmod |
| 16 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fulfil | obj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fulfil | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 5:5 | punct |
| 20 | Ecclesiastes | Ecclesiastes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 5:5 | compound |
| 21 | 5:5 | 5:5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 make | obl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 5:5 | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | to-infinitive | a vow | Ecclesiastes 5:5 obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vow=Product | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | |||||
| 4 | not fulfil in a quote | infinitive | promise | 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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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