--- title: James says to speak of the future with "If it is the Lord's will" (J… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: James says to speak of the future with "If it is the Lord's will" (James 4:13-15); promise only what lies within your power. Who acts: James, love. 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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 (James, love), 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:16 # text = James says to speak of the future with "If it is the Lord's will" (James 4:13-15); promise only what lies within your power. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 If if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 will will NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 20 4:13-15 4:13-15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 promise promise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 obj _ _ 27 within within ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | James | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | James *not said here* | | | | | of the future | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | love | | | | | with the Lord's will | tree rules | | 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lie** | present | | | | | | within your power | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:086-keeping-promises.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Keeping promises, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/15/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)