Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 9

Daniel kept praying to God three times a day despite a law forbidding it, was thrown to the lions and was kept safe.

Who acts: Daniel, law · What happens: keep, pray, forbid, throw · To what, where: God, furnace, lions

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 (Daniel, law), 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	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 God	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 praying	obl
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 praying	obl:unmarked
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 times	nmod:unmarked
10	despite	despite	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 law	det
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 praying	obl
13	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 law	acl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forbidding	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrown	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thrown	aux:pass
17	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kept	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 lions	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lions	det
20	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thrown	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kept	aux:pass
23	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thrown	conj
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kept	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Daniel					tree rules
2	pray	gerund	Daniel not said here		God	time	despite a law	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	forbid	gerund	a law not said here	furnace				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme
4	throw	past · passive	Daniel not said here		the lions			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: to lion=Destination
5	keep	past · passive	Daniel not said here				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»

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:9.

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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