Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 11
Saba was a real kingdom in what is now Yemen, rich from trading frankincense and myrrh, sweet-smelling tree resins burned in temples; some people think Sheba included lands across the Red Sea in Ethiopia too.
Who acts: Saba, people, Sheba · What happens: be, smell, burn, think, include · To what, where: real kingdom, smelling tree resins, temples, lands, Red Sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» 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 (Saba, people, Sheba), 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 | Saba | Saba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kingdom | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kingdom | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kingdom | amod |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 rich | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rich | cop |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 rich | advmod |
| 10 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rich | compound |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yemen | punct |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kingdom | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 frankincense | case |
| 14 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frankincense | compound |
| 15 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rich | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 myrrh | cc |
| 17 | myrrh | myrrh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frankincense | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 resins | punct |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 smelling | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweet | punct |
| 21 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 resins | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 resins | compound |
| 23 | resins | resin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 frankincense | conj |
| 24 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 resins | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 temples | case |
| 26 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 burned | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 think | punct |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 think | nsubj |
| 30 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kingdom | parataxis |
| 31 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 included | nsubj |
| 32 | included | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 think | ccomp |
| 33 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 included | obj |
| 34 | across | across | ADP | _ | 37 Sea | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Sea | det |
| 36 | Red | Red | PROPN | _ | 37 Sea | flat |
| 37 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 lands | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Ethiopia | case |
| 39 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 included | obl |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 included | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Saba | a real kingdom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a real kingdom | now | from trading frankincense and myrrh and smelling tree resins; rich property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | burn | participle | smelling tree resins not said here | temples | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | some people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | include | past | Sheba | lands | the Red Sea | in Ethiopia goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent land=Theme in ethiopia=Goal |
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:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:11.
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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