Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 21

Small kept routines, like checking under a little sister's bed for monsters, help little children feel safe; "keep faith with the little ones" (see Mark 9:42).

Who acts: Small kept routines, little children · What happens: keep, check, help, feel, see · To what, where: bed, little children, faith, Mark · 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 (Small kept routines, little children), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 routines	amod
2	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 routines	amod
3	routines	routine	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 help	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 checking	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 checking	mark
6	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 routines	acl
7	under	under	ADP	_	12 bed	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sister	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sister	amod
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 sister	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 checking	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 monsters	case
14	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 checking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct
16	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 children	amod
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 help	obj
19	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 help	xcomp
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feel	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
23	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 help	parataxis
24	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 ones	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ones	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ones	amod
28	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keep	obl
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	conj
32	Mark	Mark	PROPN	_	31 see	obj
33	9:42	9:42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 Mark	flat
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	participle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	check	gerund	Small kept routines not said here		a little sister's bed	for monsters	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location for monster=Theme
3	help	present	Small kept routines	little children			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	feel	infinitive	little children not said here			safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	keep in a quote	infinitive		faith		with the little ones	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme
6	see	infinitive		Mark			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus

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:21.

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, 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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