--- title: A vow is a solemn promise, often made before God and other people, a… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: A vow is a solemn promise, often made before God and other people, and an oath is a promise to tell the truth or keep your word, sometimes "sworn" on a holy book. Who acts: vow, oath, your. 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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 (vow, oath, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:0 # text = A vow is a solemn promise, often made before God and other people, and an oath is a promise to tell the truth or keep your word, sometimes "sworn" on a holy book. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vow vow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 solemn solemn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sworn swear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a vow | a solemn promise and a promise | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a solemn promise and a promise *not said here* | | | before God and other people | often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **is a** | present | a oath | a promise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a vow *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | a vow *not said here* | your word | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **swear** *in a quote* | participle | a vow *not said here* | | | a holy book | | sometimes *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **word** | | your | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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. 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