--- title: Small kept routines, like checking under a little sister's bed for m… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: Small kept routines, like checking under a little sister's bed for monsters, help little children feel safe; "keep faith with the little ones" (see Mark 9:42). Who acts: Small kept routines, little children. 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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 (Small kept routines, little children), 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:21 # text = Small kept routines, like checking under a little sister's bed for monsters, help little children feel safe; "keep faith with the little ones" (see Mark 9:42). # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 routines routine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 monsters monster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 24 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 Mark Mark PROPN NNP _ 31 obj _ _ 33 9:42 9:42 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 flat _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | participle | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **check** | gerund | Small kept routines *not said here* | | | a little sister's bed | | for monsters | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location for monster=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | Small kept routines | little children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | little children *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | | faith | | | | with the little ones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | | Mark | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | 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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