--- title: "Like a broken tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics description: "Like a broken tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble" (Proverbs 25:19); children who see promises broken again and again learn not to hope. Who acts: broken tooth, children, promises. 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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 (broken tooth, children, promises), 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:9 # text = "Like a broken tooth or a lame foot is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble" (Proverbs 25:19); children who see promises broken again and again learn not to hope. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 2 Like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 lame lame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 reliance reliance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 unfaithful unfaithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Proverbs proverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 appos _ _ 23 25:19 25:19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 flat _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:acl 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 hope hope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 34 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 | **break** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a broken tooth in a time of trouble or a lame foot | reliance | | the unfaithful | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | present | children | promises | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **break** | participle | promises *not said here* | | | | again | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **learn** | infinitive | children | | | | again | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **hope** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/8/) - next →: [Keeping promises, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/86-keeping-promises/)