Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 4

Many faiths treat a promise as sacred, which is exactly why it matters to think before you promise, and to keep long promises one day at a time.

Who acts: Many faiths, you · What happens: treat, be, matter, think, promise, keep · To what, where: promise, faith, long promises

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 (Many faiths, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 faiths	amod
2	faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 treat	nsubj
3	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treat	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 sacred	case
7	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 treat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 why	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 why	cop
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 why	advmod
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 matters	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 matters	expl
14	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 matters	xcomp
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 promise	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 promise	nsubj
19	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 think	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 keep	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 think	conj
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 promises	amod
25	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keep	obj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl:unmarked
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 treat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	treat	present	Many faiths	a promise		as sacred	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme as sacred=Attribute
2	is	present				exactly, why property	tree rules
3	matter	present		faith			tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	promise speech: promise	present	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	keep	to-infinitive		long promises	day; time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme

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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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