--- title: St Patrick, St David, St Andrew and St George are the patron saints… — The church year · tree and pragmatics description: St Patrick, St David, St Andrew and St George are the patron saints of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England; a patron saint is a saint seen as the special friend and helper of a country, and people keep his day. Who acts: St Patrick, patron saint, people. A sentence of the lesson «The church year» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [The church year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/) / 17 # The church year, sentence 17 St Patrick, St David, St Andrew and St George are the patron saints of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England; a patron saint is a saint seen as the special friend and helper of a country, and people keep his day. **Who acts:** St Patrick, patron saint, people · **What happens:** be, see, keep · **To what, where:** patron saints, saint This is a sentence of the lesson «The church year» 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 (St Patrick, patron saint, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:026-the-church-year.lesson:17 # text = St Patrick, St David, St Andrew and St George are the patron saints of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England; a patron saint is a saint seen as the special friend and helper of a country, and people keep his day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 026-the-church-year.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 2 Patrick Patrick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 5 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 8 Andrew Andrew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 11 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 patron patron NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 saints saint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 patron patron NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 saint saint NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 saint saint NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 31 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nmod 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | St Patrick and St David and St Andrew and St George | the patron saints | | | | of Ireland and Wales and Scotland and England | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a patron saint | a saint | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | participle | | a saint *not said here* | | | | as the special friend of a country and helper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as friend=Attribute | | 4 | **keep** | present | people | | | | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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:026-the-church-year.lesson:17`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The church year, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/16/) - next →: [The church year, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/)