--- title: "It's in God's hands" means nothing more can be done and we must wai… — Soft words for hard things: religion and fate an… · tree and pragmatics description: "It's in God's hands" means nothing more can be done and we must wait and see. Who acts: sake, hands, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sake, hands, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.lesson:12 # text = "It's in God's hands" means nothing more can be done and we must wait and see. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 032-religion-fate-failure.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sake | | | God's hands | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | God's hands | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | can · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **wait** | must | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:euphemisms:032-religion-fate-failure.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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/11/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: religion a…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/)