Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 15
Joshua said, "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15): a public commitment.
Who acts: Joshua, we · What happens: say, serve · To what, where: Lord · 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 (Joshua, we), 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 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 5 | As | as | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 As | fixed |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 household | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 household | nmod:poss |
| 10 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 me | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 serve | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 serve | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 serve | aux |
| 14 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lord | det |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 serve | obj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Lord | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 Joshua | punct |
| 19 | Joshua | Joshua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 serve | parataxis |
| 20 | 24:15 | 24:15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Joshua | flat |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 Joshua | punct |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 commitment | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 commitment | det |
| 24 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 commitment | amod |
| 25 | commitment | commitment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 serve | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Joshua | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | serve in a quote | future | we | the Lord | a public commitment obl | tree rules |
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:15.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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