--- title: Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against someone who deceives a neighbour and… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against someone who deceives a neighbour and then says, "I was only joking!"; a joke both people get is not deception. Who acts: Proverbs, I, people, joke. 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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, I, people, joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:11 # text = Proverbs 26:18-19 warns against someone who deceives a neighbour and then says, "I was only joking!"; a joke both people get is not deception. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Proverbs Proverbs PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 26:18-19 26:18-19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ 3 warns warn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 against against ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 deceives deceive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 26 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 deception deception NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | Proverbs | | | | | against someone | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against someone=Topic | | 2 | **deceive** | present | | a neighbour | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | I | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | present | both people | a joke *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | a joke | deception | | | | | 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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-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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