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title: Psalm 15 praises the one "who keeps an oath even when it hurts" (Psa… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics
description: Psalm 15 praises the one "who keeps an oath even when it hurts" (Psalm 15:4). Who acts: Psalm, one, oath. 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.
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# Keeping promises, sentence 5

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Psalm 15 praises the one "who keeps an oath even when it hurts" (Psalm 15:4).

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**Who acts:** Psalm, one, oath · **What happens:** praise, keep, hurt · **To what, where:** one, oath

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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 (Psalm, one, oath), 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:5
# text = Psalm 15 praises the one "who keeps an oath even when it hurts" (Psalm 15:4).
# 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
1	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	praises	praise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	oath	oath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	15:4	15:4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | present | Psalm | the one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | the one | a oath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present | oath |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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:5`.

**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. **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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