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title: "God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble" (James 4:6);… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: "God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble" (James 4:6); say sorry for your part, even if the other person started it. Who acts: God, other person. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 17

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"God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble" (James 4:6); say sorry for your part, even if the other person started it.

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**Who acts:** God, other person · **What happens:** oppose, show, say, start · **To what, where:** proud, favour, humble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» 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 (God, other person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:17
# text = "God opposes the proud but shows favour to the humble" (James 4:6); say sorry for your part, even if the other person started it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opposes	oppose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
15	4:6	4:6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppose** *in a quote* | present | God | the proud |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | present | God *not said here* | favour | the humble |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Topic to humble=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **start** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the other person | favour |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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. **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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