Keeping promises, sentence 8

A promise to hide wrongdoing does not bind you; Herod kept a wicked oath, and it cost John the Baptist his life (Mark 6:22-28).

Who acts: promise, Herod · What happens: hide, not bind, keep, cost · To what, where: wrongdoing, you, wicked oath, John

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 (promise, Herod), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bind	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	acl
5	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bind	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bind	advmod
8	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kept	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bind	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 bind	punct
11	Herod	Herod	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 oath	det
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 oath	amod
15	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cost	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cost	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cost	nsubj
19	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	conj
20	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 cost	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Baptist	det
22	Baptist	baptist	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 John	appos
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cost	obj
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 Mark	punct
26	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 life	appos
27	6:22-28	6:22-28	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 Mark	flat
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 Mark	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive	a promise not said here	wrongdoing		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrongdoing=Patient
2	not bind	present · do-support	a promise	you		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	keep	past	Herod	a wicked oath		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
4	cost	past	promise		John	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme john=Beneficiary life=Value

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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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