Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 43
The teaching of Christ, the Teacher, commands us to forgive our enemies, to love our neighbors; for God is love.
Who acts: teaching, God · What happens: command, forgive, love, be, teach · To what, where: us, enemies, neighbors, Christ · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teaching, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teaching | det |
| 2 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commands | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Christ | case |
| 4 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 teaching | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Teacher | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Teacher | det |
| 7 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Christ | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 teaching | punct |
| 9 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 commands | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 forgive | mark |
| 12 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 commands | xcomp |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 14 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forgive | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 love | mark |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forgive | conj |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 love | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 love | case |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 love | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 love | cop |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commands | vocative |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 commands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | present | the teaching of Christ and the Teacher | us | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | forgive not said to happen | to-infinitive | the teaching of Christ and the Teacher not said here | our enemies | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | the teaching of Christ and the Teacher not said here | our neighbors | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbor=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | God | for love | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | teach | Christ and the Teacher | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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