--- title: Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or… — What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, gr… · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or together: saying thank you, saying sorry, asking for others and asking for ourselves. Who acts: Christians, prayer. 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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 (Christians, prayer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:0 # text = Christians believe prayer is talking and listening to God, alone or together: saying thank you, saying sorry, asking for others and asking for ourselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 alone alone ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 16 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl 20 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** | present · progressive | prayer | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **listen** | gerund | prayer *not said here* | | God | | | alone *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to god=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | prayer *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | prayer *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for others | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | for ourselves | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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](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:022-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven.lesson:0`. **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. **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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