Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 15
Christians differ on whether to read Jonah as history or as a teaching story; this is disputed.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: differ, read, dispute · To what, where: Jonah, this
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 (Christians), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 differ | nsubj |
| 2 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 differ | advcl |
| 7 | Jonah | Jonah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 read | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 history | case |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 story | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | compound |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 history | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 disputed | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 disputed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 disputed | aux:pass |
| 18 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 differ | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | Christians | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | Christians not said here | Jonah | as history or a teaching story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jonah=Stimulus as history=Attribute | |||
| 3 | dispute | present · passive | this | 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, 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:15.
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): 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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