Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 4
Christians believe God meets confession with mercy (1 John 1:9), and even King David, when the prophet Nathan said "You are the man!", answered at once, "I have sinned against the Lord" (2 Samuel 12:1-13).
Who acts: Christians, God, prophet, You, David · What happens: believe, meet, say, be, answer, sin · To what, where: confession, man · 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 (Christians, God, prophet, 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 meets | nsubj |
| 4 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meets | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meets | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 1 | punct |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 meets | obl |
| 10 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | 1:9 | 1:9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 1 | flat |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 1 | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 answered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 answered | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 David | advmod |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 David | nmod:desc |
| 17 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 said | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prophet | det |
| 21 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 22 | Nathan | Nathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 prophet | appos |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 answered | advcl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 25 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 man | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 man | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 answered | punct |
| 32 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 once | case |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | _ | 32 answered | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 answered | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 sinned | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 sinned | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 sinned | aux |
| 39 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 answered | ccomp |
| 40 | against | against | ADP | _ | 42 Lord | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Lord | det |
| 42 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 sinned | obl |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 sinned | punct |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 Samuel | punct |
| 45 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 Samuel | nummod |
| 46 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Lord | appos |
| 47 | 12:1-13 | 12:1-13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 Samuel | list |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 Samuel | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | God | confession | with mercy; 1 John obl | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent confession=Theme with mercy=Instrument | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the prophet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | You | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | David King | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sin in a quote | present · perfect | David King = david | against the Lord | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against lord=Maleficiary |
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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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