--- title: A promise to hide wrongdoing does not bind you; Herod kept a wicked… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: A promise to hide wrongdoing does not bind you; Herod kept a wicked oath, and it cost John the Baptist his life (Mark 6:22-28). Who acts: promise, Herod. 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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 (promise, Herod), 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:8 # text = A promise to hide wrongdoing does not bind you; Herod kept a wicked oath, and it cost John the Baptist his life (Mark 6:22-28). # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 5 wrongdoing wrongdoing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 bind bind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 Herod Herod PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 cost cost VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Baptist baptist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Mark Mark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 27 6:22-28 6:22-28 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 flat _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive | a promise *not said here* | wrongdoing | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrongdoing=Patient | | 2 | **not** **bind** | present · do-support | a promise | you | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | past | Herod | a wicked oath | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme | | 4 | **cost** | past | promise | | John | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme john=Beneficiary life=Value | 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:8`. **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, R6-punct-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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/7/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)