Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 10

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another" (Proverbs 27:17): ask people who care about you, and really listen.

Who acts: iron, one person, people · What happens: sharpen, ask, care, listen · To what, where: iron, another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (iron, one person, people), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sharpens	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 sharpens	mark
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sharpens	nsubj
4	sharpens	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sharpens	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sharpens	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 sharpens	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 person	nummod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sharpens	nsubj
10	sharpens	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sharpens	conj
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 sharpens	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sharpens	punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Proverbs	punct
14	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sharpens	parataxis
15	27:17	27:17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 Proverbs	flat
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 Proverbs	punct
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 ask	punct
18	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 sharpens	parataxis
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ask	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 care	nsubj
21	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 people	acl:relcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 care	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 listen	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 listen	cc
26	really	really	ADV	_	27 listen	advmod
27	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 ask	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sharpens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sharpen in a quote	present	iron	iron		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
2	sharpen in a quote	present	one person	another		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	people			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	care	present	people		about you	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about you=Stimulus
5	listen	infinitive	people not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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