Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 16
The law says to confess the wrong and make full restitution (pay back all of it), adding a fifth (Numbers 5:6-7); Jesus said to be reconciled with your brother before bringing your gift (Matthew 5:23-24).
Who acts: law, Jesus, your · What happens: say, confess, make, pay back, add, reconcile · To what, where: wrong, full restitution, all, fifth, gift · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (law, Jesus, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 confess | mark |
| 5 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wrong | det |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 confess | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 confess | conj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 restitution | amod |
| 11 | restitution | restitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 pay | punct |
| 13 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 all | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 pay | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 all | nmod |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 pay | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 adding | punct |
| 20 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 confess | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fifth | det |
| 22 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 adding | obj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Numbers | punct |
| 24 | Numbers | Numbers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fifth | appos |
| 25 | 5:6-7 | 5:6-7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 Numbers | flat |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Numbers | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 reconciled | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 reconciled | aux:pass |
| 32 | reconciled | reconcile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 said | xcomp |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 brother | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 brother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reconciled | obl |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 37 bringing | mark |
| 37 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 reconciled | advcl |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 gift | nmod:poss |
| 39 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bringing | obj |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 Matthew | punct |
| 41 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 gift | appos |
| 42 | 5:23-24 | 5:23-24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 Matthew | flat |
| 43 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 Matthew | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | confess | to-infinitive | the law not said here | the wrong | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the law not said here | full restitution | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset restitution=Product | ||||
| 4 | pay back | infinitive | the law not said here | all | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Asset | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | gerund | the law not said here | a fifth | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | reconcile | to-infinitive · passive | Jesus not said here | with your brother | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bring | gerund | Jesus not said here | your gift | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 9 | gift | your | nom gift «possession 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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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