--- title: Old sayings carry the same wisdom: «Don't let the sun go down on you… — Living well because life is short · tree and pragmatics description: Old sayings carry the same wisdom: «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» (from the Bible) means make up before bed; «a good innings» (from cricket) means a long, full life; a gravestone that says only «She loved and was loved» says what lasts. 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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 (Old sayings, sun, good innings, gravestone), 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:5 # text = Old sayings carry the same wisdom: «Don't let the sun go down on your anger» (from the Bible) means make up before bed; «a good innings» (from cricket) means a long, full life; a gravestone that says only «She loved and was loved» says what lasts. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 nsubj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 down down ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 before before ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 innings inning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 cricket cricket NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 40 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 gravestone gravestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 49 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 50 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 51 only only ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 52 « « PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 53 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 ccomp _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 conj _ _ 58 » » PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct 59 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 conj _ _ 60 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 61 nsubj _ _ 61 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 ccomp _ _ 62 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Old sayings | the same wisdom | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme | | 2 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | the sun | | the Bible | | | tree rules | | 3 | **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 | | 4 | **means** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make up** | infinitive | | | | | before bed | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | a good innings from cricket | a long full life | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a gravestone | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **love** *in a quote* | past | Paul | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **love** *in a quote* | past · passive | Paul *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF» | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a gravestone *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 11 | **last** | present | | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **anger** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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