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title: «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» comes from the Bible (Ephe… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics
description: «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» comes from the Bible (Ephesians 4:26) and means make up before the day ends. Who acts: sun, day, your. A sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Living well because life is short, sentence 14

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«Don't let the sun go down on your anger» comes from the Bible (Ephesians 4:26) and means make up before the day ends.

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**Who acts:** sun, day, your · **What happens:** not let, go down, come, mean, make up, end · **To what, where:** sun, anger, Bible · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» 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 (sun, day, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.lesson:14
# text = «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» comes from the Bible (Ephesians 4:26) and means make up before the day ends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	csubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Ephesians	Ephesians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
19	4:26	4:26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go down** *in a quote* | infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  | your anger |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on anger=Location |
| 3 | **come** | present |  |  |  | the Bible |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bible=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make up** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **end** | present | the day |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **anger** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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