Keeping promises, sentence 15
When life changes a lot, like losing a job, the promiser should explain honestly, and the other person should try to understand; love "is not self-seeking" (1 Corinthians 13:5).
Who acts: life, lot, promiser, other person, love · What happens: change, lose, explain, try, understand, not be · To what, where: lot, job · 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: who acts (life, lot, promiser, other person), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 changes | advmod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 explain | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 losing | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 8 losing | mark |
| 8 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 lot | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 job | det |
| 10 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 losing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 promiser | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 promiser | det |
| 13 | promiser | promiser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 explain | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 explain | aux |
| 15 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 15 explain | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 try | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 try | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 person | amod |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 try | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 try | aux |
| 23 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 explain | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 understand | mark |
| 25 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 try | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 love | punct |
| 27 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seeking | nsubj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 love | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 seeking | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 seeking | advmod |
| 31 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 seeking | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 self | punct |
| 33 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 understand | ccomp |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 seeking | punct |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 37 Corinthians | punct |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 Corinthians | nummod |
| 37 | Corinthians | Corinthians | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 seeking | obj |
| 38 | 13:5 | 13:5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 Corinthians | flat |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 Corinthians | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | life | a lot | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | a lot not said here | a job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | should | the promiser | honestly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | should | the other person | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | understand not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other person not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | present | love | seek 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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:15.
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, 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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