--- title: Proverbs 16:28 says, "A gossip separates close friends": passing on… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics description: Proverbs 16:28 says, "A gossip separates close friends": passing on what you were told in trust is a kind of dishonesty. Who acts: Proverbs, gossip, passing. 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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 (Proverbs, gossip, passing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:13 # text = Proverbs 16:28 says, "A gossip separates close friends": passing on what you were told in trust is a kind of dishonesty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 16:28 16:28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 gossip gossip NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 separates separate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 9 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 13 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 14 on on PART RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 dishonesty dishonesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Proverbs | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **separate** *in a quote* | present | a gossip | close friends | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | | 3 | **pass on** | gerund | | | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | you | | trust | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | passing | a kind | | | | of dishonesty | tree rules | 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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:13`. **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 ×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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