Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 1

At a baptism the parents and godparents promise, in front of the whole church, to bring the baby up in the faith; saying it in public means the whole community helps them keep it.

Who acts: parents, whole community · What happens: promise, bring up, say, mean, help, keep · To what, where: baptism, baby, faith, public, parents, community · 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 (parents, whole community), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 baptism	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 baptism	det
3	baptism	baptism	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 promise	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 godparents	cc
7	godparents	godparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parents	conj
8	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 front	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 church	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 church	amod
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bring	mark
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 promise	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 baby	det
20	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	18 bring	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 faith	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 faith	det
24	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 bring	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saying	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 public	case
29	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 saying	obl
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 saying	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 community	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 community	amod
33	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 helps	nsubj
34	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 means	ccomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 helps	obj
36	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 helps	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 keep	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 promise	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	the parents and godparents		a baptism	in front of the whole church	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bring up	to-infinitive	the parents and godparents not said here	the baby	the faith		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the parents and godparents not said here	baby	public		tree rules
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	help	present	the whole community	parents = parent			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	keep	infinitive	parents = parent not said here	community			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:1.

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. 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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