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title: Psalm 23 begins «The Lord is my shepherd» and pictures God leading,… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Psalm 23 begins «The Lord is my shepherd» and pictures God leading, feeding and protecting, even through the darkest valley. Who acts: Psalm, Lord. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 7

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Psalm 23 begins «The Lord is my shepherd» and pictures God leading, feeding and protecting, even through the darkest valley.

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**Who acts:** Psalm, Lord · **What happens:** begin, be, lead, feed, protect · **To what, where:** shepherd, darkest valley · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» 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 (Psalm, Lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:7
# text = Psalm 23 begins «The Lord is my shepherd» and pictures God leading, feeding and protecting, even through the darkest valley.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
3	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
13	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	darkest	dark	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | Psalm |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Lord | my shepherd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | Psalm *not said here* |  |  | the darkest valley |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through valley=Destination |
| 4 | **feed** | gerund | Psalm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **protect** | gerund | Psalm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:7`.

**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, 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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