--- title: To get out of a promise honestly, ask early and tell the truth; "Do… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: To get out of a promise honestly, ask early and tell the truth; "Do not lie to each other" (Colossians 3:9). Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/88-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Vows, oaths and promises in faith](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/88-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith/) / 19 # Vows, oaths and promises in faith, sentence 19 To get out of a promise honestly, ask early and tell the truth; "Do not lie to each other" (Colossians 3:9). **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get out, ask, tell, not lie · **To what, where:** promise, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:19 # text = To get out of a promise honestly, ask early and tell the truth; "Do not lie to each other" (Colossians 3:9). # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 3 out out ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 lie lie VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Colossians Colossians PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 26 3:9 3:9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a promise | | | | honestly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | early *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | to each other | tree rules | 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:19`. **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, R7-rel-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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