Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 10

At King Belshazzar's feast a hand wrote on the palace wall, and Daniel explained that the king's kingdom would end; «the writing on the wall» now means a clear warning.

Who acts: hand, Daniel, kingdom, writing · What happens: write, explain, end, mean · To what, where: feast, clear warning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» 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 (hand, Daniel, kingdom, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 feast	case
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feast	nmod:poss
3	Belshazzar	Belshazzar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	nsubj
8	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wall	compound
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrote	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 explained	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 explained	cc
15	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 explained	nsubj
16	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrote	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 end	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kingdom	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 king	case
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 end	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 end	aux
23	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 explained	ccomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 means	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 means	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 writing	det
27	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	nsubj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 wall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wall	det
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 writing	nmod
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 writing	punct
32	now	now	ADV	_	33 means	advmod
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrote	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 warning	det
35	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 warning	amod
36	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	a hand		King's feast		on the palace wall	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination
2	explain speech: assert	past	Daniel					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	end	would	the king's kingdom					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	mean	present	the writing on the wall	a clear warning		now		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Topic

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, 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:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:10.

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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