Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 3

Jesus said, "All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'" (Matthew 5:34-37), so Quakers never swear oaths: an honest person's plain word should be as good as an oath.

Who acts: Jesus, you, Quakers, plain word, honest person · What happens: say, need, not swear, be, word · To what, where: oaths · 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 (Jesus, you, Quakers, plain word), 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	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 All	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 All	punct
5	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 All	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	xcomp
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 '	cop
11	simply	simply	ADV	_	14 '	advmod
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Yes	punct
13	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	14 '	discourse
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 All	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 '	cc
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 No	punct
17	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 '	det
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 All	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 All	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 Matthew	punct
21	Matthew	matthew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 All	nmod
22	5:34-37	5:34-37	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 Matthew	flat
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 Matthew	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swear	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 swear	advmod
26	Quakers	quaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 swear	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 swear	advmod
28	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
29	oaths	oath	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 swear	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 word	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 person	det
32	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 person	amod
33	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 word	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 person	case
35	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 word	amod
36	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 good	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 good	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 good	cop
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 good	advmod
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 swear	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 oath	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 oath	det
43	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 good	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jesus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not swear	present	Quakers	oaths		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality
5	is	should	a honest person's plain word		as a oath; good property	tree rules
6	word		a honest person			nom word «communication 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:3.

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, 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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