Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 14
God gave Jonah a plant for shade and let it die, to teach him to care for a city of people more than for a plant; the book ends with God's question to Jonah, left for every reader to answer.
Who acts: God, plant, book · What happens: give, let, die, teach, care, end · To what, where: plant, Jonah
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 (God, plant, book), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jonah | Jonah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plant | det |
| 5 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 shade | case |
| 7 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plant | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 teach | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 teach | mark |
| 14 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 teach | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 care | mark |
| 17 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 teach | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 care | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 city | nmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 care | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 plant | case |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 plant | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 plant | det |
| 27 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 care | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 ends | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 book | det |
| 30 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ends | nsubj |
| 31 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 teach | parataxis |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 question | case |
| 33 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 question | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 God | case |
| 35 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ends | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Jonah | case |
| 37 | Jonah | Jonah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 question | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 left | punct |
| 39 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 reader | case |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 reader | det |
| 42 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 left | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 answer | mark |
| 44 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 left | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | God | a plant | Jonah | for shade | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent jonah=Recipient plant=Theme for shade=Asset | ||
| 2 | let | past | God not said here | plant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | plant not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | God not said here | Jonah | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | care | to-infinitive | God not said here | for a city of people; than a plant | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for city=Theme | ||||
| 6 | end | present | the book | with God's question to Jonah | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with question=Subeventuality | ||||
| 7 | leave | past | God not said here | for every reader | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for reader=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | God not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | question | God | to Jonah | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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:14.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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