--- title: At baptism parents and godparents make promises before God and the c… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: At baptism parents and godparents make promises before God and the church; "When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:4). Who acts: parents, 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 (parents, 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:5 # text = At baptism parents and godparents make promises before God and the church; "When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfil it" (Ecclesiastes 5:4). # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 baptism baptism NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 godparents godparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 15 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 vow vow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 23 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 delay delay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 fulfil fulfil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:parataxis|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur 32 5:4 5:4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 flat _ _ 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | parents and godparents | promises | | baptism | before God and the church | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | you | a vow | | | | to God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product | | 3 | **not** **delay** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | church | | | | | 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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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