--- title: All you need to say is a simple 'Yes' or 'No'" (James 5:12); a plain… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: All you need to say is a simple 'Yes' or 'No'" (James 5:12); a plain yes, kept, beats any dramatic oath. Who acts: you, All, plain yes. 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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 (you, All, plain yes), 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:13 # text = All you need to say is a simple 'Yes' or 'No'" (James 5:12); a plain yes, kept, beats any dramatic oath. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 10 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 13 discourse _ _ 11 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 14 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 conj _ _ 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 5:12 5:12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 flat _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 26 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 30 dramatic dramatic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | All | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | participle | | a plain yes *not said here* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **beat** *in a quote* | present | a plain yes | any dramatic oath | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oath=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:088-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith.lesson:13`. **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, 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. 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