--- title: The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neigh… — Vows, oaths and promises in faith · tree and pragmatics description: The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) is first of all about witnesses; in Israel one witness was not enough to convict anyone (Deuteronomy 19:15). Who acts: You, commandment, one witness. 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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, commandment, one witness), 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:7 # text = The commandment "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour" (Exodus 20:16) is first of all about witnesses; in Israel one witness was not enough to convict anyone (Deuteronomy 19:15). # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 commandment commandment NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl 8 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 against against ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Exodus exodus NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 20:16 20:16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 flat _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 19 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 advmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 obl _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 witnesses witness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 convict convict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 34 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 obj _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Deuteronomy deuteronomy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 37 19:15 19:15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 flat _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 39 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | shall | You | false witness | | | | against your neighbour | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | the commandment | | | | | about witnesses; first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | one witness | | | Israel | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **convict** | to-infinitive | one witness *not said here* | anyone | | | | | 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:7`. **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 ×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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