--- title: Words like "now now" (South Africa: soon, in a bit) change from plac… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: Words like "now now" (South Africa: soon, in a bit) change from place to place; when it matters, say exactly when. Who acts: Words, it. 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 every clause. --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Keeping promises, sentence 17 Words like "now now" (South Africa: soon, in a bit) change from place to place; when it matters, say exactly when. **Who acts:** Words, it · **What happens:** change, place, matter, say · **To what, where:** bit · **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 (Words, it), 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:17 # text = Words like "now now" (South Africa: soon, in a bit) change from place to place; when it matters, say exactly when. # 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 ×2 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 to to SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 place place VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:ccomp 26 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 27 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Words like South Africa | | | a bit | | from place; soon *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from place=Initial\_State | | 2 | **place** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **matter** | present | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:17`. **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 ×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: [Keeping promises, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/16/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)