Owning up when it is hard, sentence 12
If a lost thing you were paid for turns up, take it back and tell them: "We are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man" (2 Corinthians 8:21).
Who acts: lost thing, you, We · What happens: lose, pay, turn up, take back, tell, take · To what, where: you, thing, reports, pains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up when it is hard» 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 (lost thing, you, We), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 turns | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 paid | case |
| 9 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 turns | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 paid | punct |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 20 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 taking | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taking | aux |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 taking | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taking | xcomp |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 right | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 right | cop |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 do | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 eyes | punct |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 eyes | advmod |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 eyes | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 eyes | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 eyes | det |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 right | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Lord | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Lord | det |
| 37 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 eyes | nmod |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 eyes | cc |
| 39 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 eyes | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 eyes | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 eyes | det |
| 42 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 do | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 man | case |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 eyes | nmod |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 man | punct |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 Corinthians | punct |
| 47 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Corinthians | nummod |
| 48 | Corinthians | Corinthians | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 man | nmod |
| 49 | 8:21 | 8:21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Corinthians | flat |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 Corinthians | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pay | past · passive | a lost thing not said here | you | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 3 | turn up a condition, not said to happen | present | a lost thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take back | imperative | you not said here | thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | reports = report | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | present · progressive | We | pains | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent pain=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | right property | 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:091-owning-up-when-it-is-hard.lesson:12.
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, 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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