Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly, sentence 15
Taxes pay for schools, hospitals and roads; Jesus said, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's" (Mark 12:17), and Paul, "If you owe taxes, pay taxes" (Romans 13:7).
Who acts: Taxes, Jesus, you · What happens: pay, say, give back, be, owe · To what, where: Caesar, taxes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest money: earning, raising and paying fairly» 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 (Taxes, Jesus, 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 | Taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pay | nsubj |
| 2 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 schools | case |
| 4 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pay | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hospitals | punct |
| 6 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 schools | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 roads | cc |
| 8 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hospitals | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pay | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Give | punct |
| 14 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 Give | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Caesar | case |
| 17 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Give | obl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 Give | obj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Caesar | cop |
| 20 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Caesar | case |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 God | cc |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 God | case |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Caesar | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 what | obl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 God | cop |
| 27 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 God | case |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 God | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mark | punct |
| 31 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 God | conj |
| 32 | 12:17 | 12:17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 Mark | flat |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 Mark | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Paul | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Paul | cc |
| 36 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mark | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Paul | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 pay | punct |
| 39 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 owe | mark |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 owe | nsubj |
| 41 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 pay | advcl |
| 42 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 owe | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 owe | punct |
| 44 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 Mark | parataxis |
| 45 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 pay | obj |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 pay | punct |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 48 Romans | punct |
| 48 | Romans | Romans | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 pay | parataxis |
| 49 | 13:7 | 13:7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 Romans | flat |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 Romans | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | Taxes | for schools and hospitals and roads | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for school=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give back in a quote | infinitive | Caesar | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to caesar=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | 's Caesar and God | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | 's God and Mark and Paul | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | owe a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | taxes | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent tax=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pay in a quote | infinitive | taxes | 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:096-honest-money-earning-raising-and-paying-fairly.lesson:15.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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