Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 6
The Bible (1 Kings 10) says the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem with camels carrying spices, gold and precious stones, to test him with hard questions.
Who acts: Bible, Queen, camels · What happens: say, hear, come, carry, test · To what, where: camels, Jerusalem, spices · 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 (Bible, Queen, camels), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bible | det |
| 2 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kings | punct |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Kings | nummod |
| 5 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Bible | parataxis |
| 6 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Kings | flat |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kings | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sheba | case |
| 12 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | nmod |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fame | case |
| 15 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fame | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Solomon | case |
| 17 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Jerusalem | case |
| 21 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 24 carrying | mark |
| 23 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 camels | acl |
| 25 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carrying | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gold | punct |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spices | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stones | cc |
| 29 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stones | amod |
| 30 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spices | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 test | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 test | mark |
| 33 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 test | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 questions | case |
| 36 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 questions | amod |
| 37 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 test | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Bible | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Queen of Sheba | of Solomon's fame | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fame=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the Queen of Sheba not said here | camels | Jerusalem | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jerusalem=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | carry | gerund | camels not said here | spices and gold and precious stones | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme | ||||
| 5 | test | to-infinitive | the Queen of Sheba not said here | Jerusalem | with hard questions | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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:6.
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, 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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