Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 13
"Be careful not to practise your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them" (Matthew 6:1-4); being honest about your reasons helps you do good for good reasons.
Who acts: you, others, honest · What happens: be, not practise, see, help, do · To what, where: righteousness, front, you, good
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 (you, others, honest), 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 | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 practise | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 practise | mark |
| 6 | practise | practise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | xcomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 righteousness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 practise | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 practise | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 front | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 practise | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | obl:agent |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Matthew | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Matthew | punct |
| 20 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | parataxis |
| 21 | 6:1-4 | 6:1-4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Matthew | flat |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Matthew | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 honest | punct |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 honest | cop |
| 25 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 helps | nsubj |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 reasons | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 reasons | nmod:poss |
| 28 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 honest | obl |
| 29 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 careful | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 helps | obj |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 helps | xcomp |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 do | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 reasons | case |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 reasons | amod |
| 35 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 do | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not practise in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your righteousness | front of others | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | others = other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | about your reasons; honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | help | present | honest | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | infinitive | you not said here | good | for good reasons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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:13.
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 ×1, 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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