--- title: Many faiths treat a promise as sacred, which is exactly why it matte… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: Many faiths treat a promise as sacred, which is exactly why it matters to think before you promise, and to keep long promises one day at a time. Who acts: Many faiths, you. 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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 (Many faiths, 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:4 # text = Many faiths treat a promise as sacred, which is exactly why it matters to think before you promise, and to keep long promises one day at a time. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 faiths faith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 treat treat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 14 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **treat** | present | Many faiths | a promise | | | | as sacred | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme as sacred=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | exactly, why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **matter** | present | | faith | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | you | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | long promises | | | day; time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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