--- title: Monks and nuns live in communities devoted to prayer and service, wi… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics description: Monks and nuns live in communities devoted to prayer and service, with vows of poverty (owning nothing of their own), chastity (not marrying) and obedience (doing as their leaders say). Who acts: Monks, poverty, obedience, leaders. 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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 (Monks, poverty, obedience, leaders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:20 # text = Monks and nuns live in communities devoted to prayer and service, with vows of poverty (owning nothing of their own), chastity (not marrying) and obedience (doing as their leaders say). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.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 Monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 nuns nun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 communities community NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 devoted devote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 vows vow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nmod _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 chastity chastity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 marrying marry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger 25 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 obedience obedience NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 leaders leader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Monks and nuns | | | communities | | with vows of poverty and chastity and obedience | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in community=Location | | 2 | **devote** | participle | | communities *not said here* | | | | to prayer and service *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to prayer=Goal | | 3 | **own** | gerund | poverty and chastity and obedience *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | | 4 | **not** **marry** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **do** | gerund | obedience *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | monks's leaders | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **vow** | | | poverty and chastity and obedience | | | | | nom vow «communication 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. **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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:20`. **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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