Keeping promises, sentence 4

The wise way is to promise only what lies within your power, be clear about when, and keep small promises faithfully even when nobody would find out.

Who acts: wise way, nobody · What happens: be, lie, keep, find out · To what, where: small promises · 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 (wise way, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promise	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 promise	mark
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 lies	nsubj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	ccomp
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 power	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 power	nmod:poss
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clear	punct
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 clear	cop
15	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 promise	conj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 when	case
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 clear	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 keep	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 keep	cc
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	conj
21	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 promises	amod
22	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 keep	obj
23	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	20 keep	advmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 find	advmod
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 find	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 keep	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 find	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: promise	present	the wise way		promise property	tree rules
2	lie	present			within your power	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive	the wise way not said here		clear property	tree rules
4	keep	infinitive	the wise way not said here	small promises	faithfully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
5	find out	would	nobody			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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:4.

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 ×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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