--- title: Above all, forgiveness is stronger than revenge, and Christians beli… — Joseph and his brothers · tree and pragmatics description: Above all, forgiveness is stronger than revenge, and Christians believe God can bring good even out of the bad things people do. Who acts: forgiveness, Christians, God, people. 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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 (forgiveness, Christians, God, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.lesson:5 # text = Above all, forgiveness is stronger than revenge, and Christians believe God can bring good even out of the bad things people do. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 005-joseph-and-his-brothers.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): no change 1 Above above ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 all all ADV RB _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | forgiveness | | | | | than revenge; above, strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **bring** | can | God | good | | the bad things | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent good=Theme out thing=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **do** | present | people | the bad things *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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:005-joseph-and-his-brothers.lesson:5`. **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): no change. **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: [Joseph and his brothers, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/4/) - next →: [Joseph and his brothers, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/5-joseph-and-his-brothers/)