Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 13

All you need to say is a simple 'Yes' or 'No'" (James 5:12); a plain yes, kept, beats any dramatic oath.

Who acts: you, All, plain yes · What happens: need, say, be, keep, beat · To what, where: plain yes, dramatic oath · 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 (you, All, plain yes), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 simple	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 All	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 simple	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 simple	det
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Yes	punct
10	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 '	discourse
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 Yes	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 '	cc
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 simple	punct
14	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 '	conj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 No	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 No	punct
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 James	punct
18	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 No	appos
19	5:12	5:12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 James	flat
20	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 James	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 beats	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 yes	det
23	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 yes	amod
24	yes	yes	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beats	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 yes	punct
26	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 yes	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
28	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 simple	conj
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 oath	det
30	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 oath	amod
31	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beats	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 simple	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	All		simple property	tree rules
4	keep in a quote	participle		a plain yes not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	beat in a quote	present	a plain yes	any dramatic oath		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oath=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:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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