Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 4

Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was real and grew rich from incense, but no record outside these books tells of the visit.

Who acts: Historians, kingdom, record · What happens: not check, be, grow, tell · To what, where: part · 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 (Historians, kingdom, record), 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	Historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 check	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 check	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 check	advmod
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 check	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kingdom	det
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 real	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Saba	case
11	Saba	Saba	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kingdom	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Yemen	case
13	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kingdom	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 check	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 real	conj
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grew	xcomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 incense	case
20	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tells	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 tells	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 record	det
24	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tells	nsubj
25	outside	outside	ADP	_	27 books	case
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 books	det
27	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 record	nmod
28	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 real	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 visit	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 visit	det
31	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tells	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 check	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not check	can	Historians	every part		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	is	past	the kingdom of Saba in Yemen		real property	tree rules
3	grow	past	the kingdom of Saba in Yemen not said here		from incense; rich property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from incense=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	present	no record outside this books		of the visit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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