Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 19
To get out of a promise honestly, ask early and tell the truth; "Do not lie to each other" (Colossians 3:9).
Who acts: you · What happens: get out, ask, tell, not lie · To what, where: promise, truth · 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), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ask | advcl |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 promise | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 promise | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ask | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 17 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 lie | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 lie | advmod |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 other | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lie | obl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Colossians | punct |
| 25 | Colossians | Colossians | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 lie | parataxis |
| 26 | 3:9 | 3:9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Colossians | flat |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 Colossians | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | to-infinitive | you not said here | a promise | honestly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | early property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not lie in a quote | infinitive · do-support | to each other | 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:19.
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, 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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