--- title: The Bible tells Christians to «weep with those who weep»; Job's frie… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics description: The Bible tells Christians to «weep with those who weep»; Job's friends sat with him in silence for seven days before speaking. Who acts: Bible, friends. 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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 (Bible, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:15 # text = The Bible tells Christians to «weep with those who weep»; Job's friends sat with him in silence for seven days before speaking. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 iobj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 obl _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 weep weep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 Job Job PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 25 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible | | Christians | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent christian=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **weep** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | | | | | with those | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **weep** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sit** | past | Job's friends | | | silence | day | with Bible | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Job's friends *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:15`. **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. 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