--- title: A promise is your word given for the future: when you say "I will",… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: A promise is your word given for the future: when you say "I will", other people plan around it and count on you. Who acts: promise, you, other people. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Keeping promises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/) / 0 # Keeping promises, sentence 0 A promise is your word given for the future: when you say "I will", other people plan around it and count on you. **Who acts:** promise, you, other people · **What happens:** be, give, say, plan, count · **To what, where:** word, promise · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (promise, you, other people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:0 # text = A promise is your word given for the future: when you say "I will", other people plan around it and count on you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 086-keeping-promises.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 plan plan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 around around ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a promise | your word | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | participle | | your word *not said here* | | | | for the future | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for future=Asset | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **plan** | present | other people | | | promise | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **count** | present | other people *not said here* | | | | | on you | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on you=Theme | 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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Pretend, cover stories and lies that b…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/85-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits/18/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)