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title: Leviticus 19:17 says to "rebuke your neighbour frankly" rather than… — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics
description: Leviticus 19:17 says to "rebuke your neighbour frankly" rather than hate him in your heart, and Matthew 18:15 says to go to him privately first. Who acts: Leviticus, Matthew. A sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 5

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Leviticus 19:17 says to "rebuke your neighbour frankly" rather than hate him in your heart, and Matthew 18:15 says to go to him privately first.

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**Who acts:** Leviticus, Matthew · **What happens:** say, rebuke, hate, go · **To what, where:** neighbour, Leviticus, heart, Matthew · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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 (Leviticus, Matthew), 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:5
# text = Leviticus 19:17 says to "rebuke your neighbour frankly" rather than hate him in your heart, and Matthew 18:15 says to go to him privately first.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Leviticus	Leviticus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	19:17	19:17	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	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	frankly	frankly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	18:15	18:15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	privately	privately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
28	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Leviticus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rebuke** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Leviticus *not said here* | your neighbour |  |  |  | frankly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme |
| 3 | **hate** | infinitive | Leviticus *not said here* | Leviticus |  | your heart |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Matthew |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | Matthew *not said here* |  | Matthew |  |  | first, privately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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