Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 0
A vow is a solemn promise, often made before God and other people, and an oath is a promise to tell the truth or keep your word, sometimes "sworn" on a holy book.
Who acts: vow, oath, your · What happens: be, make, tell, keep, swear, word · To what, where: solemn promise, promise, truth, word, holy book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» 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 (vow, oath, your), 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 vow | det |
| 2 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 promise | amod |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 promise | acl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 people | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 God | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 promise | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 promise | cc |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 oath | det |
| 18 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 promise | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 promise | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 promise | det |
| 21 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 promise | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 truth | det |
| 25 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 keep | cc |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | conj |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 word | nmod:poss |
| 29 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sworn | punct |
| 31 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 sworn | advmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 sworn | punct |
| 33 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 keep | advcl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 sworn | punct |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 book | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 book | det |
| 37 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 book | amod |
| 38 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sworn | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a vow | a solemn promise and a promise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a solemn promise and a promise not said here | before God and other people | often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a oath | a promise | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | a vow not said here | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | a vow not said here | your word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 6 | swear in a quote | participle | a vow not said here | a holy book | sometimes property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | word | your | 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:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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