Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 14
Scouting's founder Robert Baden-Powell made the promise central; the first Scout Law (1908) said, "A Scout's honour is to be trusted." Brownies promise to do their best and help other people.
Who acts: Robert, Scout Law, Brownies, Scout · What happens: make, say, trust, promise, do, help · To what, where: promise, honour, best, other people · 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 (Robert, Scout Law, Brownies, Scout), 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 | Scouting | scouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founder | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Scouting | case |
| 3 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Robert | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 5 | Baden | Baden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Robert | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Robert | flat |
| 7 | Powell | Powell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Robert | flat |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 promise | det |
| 10 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Law | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 Scout | amod |
| 15 | Scout | scout | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Law | compound |
| 16 | Law | Law | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 1908 | punct |
| 18 | 1908 | 1908 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Scout | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 1908 | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 23 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Scout | det |
| 24 | Scout | scout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 honour | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Scout | case |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trusted | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 trusted | aux |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 trusted | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trusted | aux:pass |
| 30 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 trusted | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 promise | punct |
| 33 | Brownies | brownie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 promise | nsubj |
| 34 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 promise | xcomp |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 best | nmod:poss |
| 38 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 do | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 help | cc |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 do | conj |
| 41 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 people | amod |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 help | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Robert Scouting's founder | the promise | central property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scout Law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trust in a quote | present · passive | a Scout's honour | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | present | Brownies | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Brownies not said here | Brownies's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | help | infinitive | Brownies not said here | other people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | honour in a quote | a Scout | nom honour «state 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:14.
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 ×3, 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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