Keeping promises, sentence 18

Ruth promised Naomi, "Where you go I will go" (Ruth 1:16); going home to her own people would have been easier, but she kept her word, stayed with Naomi and became the great-grandmother of King David (Ruth 4:17).

Who acts: Ruth, Naomi, going · What happens: promise, go, be, keep, stay, become · To what, where: Naomi, word, great grandmother · 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 (Ruth, Naomi, going), 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	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Where	punct
6	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 go	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Ruth	punct
14	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	dep
15	1:16	1:16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 Ruth	flat
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 Ruth	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 easier	punct
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 easier	csubj
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 people	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 people	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 going	obl
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 easier	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 easier	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 easier	cop
27	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 go	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kept	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 kept	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kept	nsubj
31	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 easier	advcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 word	nmod:poss
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kept	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stayed	punct
35	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 kept	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 Naomi	case
37	Naomi	Naomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 stayed	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 became	cc
39	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stayed	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 grandmother	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 grandmother	amod
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 great	punct
43	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 became	xcomp
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 David	case
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 David	nmod:desc
46	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 grandmother	nmod
47	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 Ruth	punct
48	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 became	dep
49	4:17	4:17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 Ruth	flat
50	)	)	PUNCT	_	48 Ruth	punct
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Ruth		Naomi		vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent naomi=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present	Naomi				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in a quote	future	Ruth				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	gerund				to Ruth's own people; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location
5	is	would · perfect	going			easy property	tree rules
6	keep	past	Ruth	Ruth's word			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	stay	past	Ruth not said here			with Naomi	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with naomi=Location
8	become	past	Ruth not said here	the great grandmother of David King			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	word		Ruth				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:18.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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