Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 5
At baptism parents and godparents make promises before God and the church; "When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:4).
Who acts: parents, you · What happens: make, not delay, fulfil · To what, where: promises, baptism, vow, church · 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 (parents, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 baptism | case |
| 2 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 godparents | cc |
| 5 | godparents | godparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 parents | conj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 God | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 church | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 God | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 15 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 make | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 delay | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 vow | det |
| 19 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 God | case |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 vow | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 delay | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 delay | advmod |
| 25 | delay | delay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fulfil | mark |
| 27 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 delay | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fulfil | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 fulfil | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ecclesiastes | punct |
| 31 | Ecclesiastes | Ecclesiastes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 delay | parataxis |
| 32 | 5:4 | 5:4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Ecclesiastes | flat |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ecclesiastes | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | parents and godparents | promises | baptism | before God and the church | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | you | a vow | to God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product | |||
| 3 | not delay in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | fulfil in a quote | to-infinitive | church | 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:5.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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