--- title: At a baptism the parents and godparents promise, in front of the who… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: At a baptism the parents and godparents promise, in front of the whole church, to bring the baby up in the faith; saying it in public means the whole community helps them keep it. Who acts: parents, whole community. 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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 (parents, whole community), 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:1 # text = At a baptism the parents and godparents promise, in front of the whole church, to bring the baby up in the faith; saying it in public means the whole community helps them keep it. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baptism baptism NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 godparents godparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 community community NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | the parents and godparents | | | a baptism | | in front of the whole church | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | the parents and godparents *not said here* | the baby | | the faith | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the parents and godparents *not said here* | baby | | public | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **help** | present | the whole community | parents *= parent* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **keep** | infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | community | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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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