Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 19

"Defend the weak and the fatherless... rescue the weak and the needy" (Psalm 82:3-4); a child's safety always comes before a secret.

Who acts: you, safety · What happens: defend, rescue, come · To what, where: weak, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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 (you, safety), 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	_	2 Defend	punct
2	Defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weak	det
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Defend	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fatherless	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fatherless	det
7	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weak	conj
8	...	...	PUNCT	_	9 rescue	punct
9	rescue	rescue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Defend	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 weak	det
11	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rescue	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 needy	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 needy	det
14	needy	needy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weak	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Psalm	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 Psalm	punct
17	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Defend	parataxis
18	82:3-4	82:3-4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 Psalm	flat
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 Psalm	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Defend	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 safety	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 child	case
24	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	nsubj
25	always	always	ADV	_	26 comes	advmod
26	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Defend	parataxis
27	before	before	ADP	_	29 secret	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 secret	det
29	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comes	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Defend	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	defend in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the weak			tree rules
2	rescue in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the weak			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Theme
3	come	present	a child's safety		a secret	always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before secret=Location

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:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:19.

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, R8-pos-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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