Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 11

The law in many countries lets people affirm instead of swearing, partly because of Quakers.

Who acts: law, people · What happens: let, affirm, swear · To what, where: people

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 (law, people), 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	2 law	det
2	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 countries	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 countries	amod
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 law	nmod
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lets	obj
8	affirm	affirm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lets	xcomp
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 affirm	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 affirm	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lets	punct
13	partly	partly	ADV	_	16 Quakers	advmod
14	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	16 Quakers	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 because	fixed
16	Quakers	Quaker	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 lets	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	present	the law in many countries	people	because Quakers	tree rules
2	affirm	infinitive	people not said here		instead property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	swear	gerund	people not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:11.

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): R7-rel-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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