Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 8
In the Qur'an (the chapter called «The Ant») Solomon understands the speech of birds and ants; a bird called the hoopoe brings him news of a queen of Saba whose people worship the sun, and in the end she turns to God together with Solomon.
Who acts: Solomon, bird, people, Queen · What happens: call, understand, bring, worship, turn, speak · To what, where: chapter, speech, Qur'an, hoopoe, news, Solomon · 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 (Solomon, bird, people, Queen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Qur'an | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Qur'an | det |
| 3 | Qur'an | Qur'an | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 understands | obl |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 chapter | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapter | det |
| 6 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Qur'an | appos |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chapter | acl |
| 8 | « | « | ADP | _ | 11 » | case |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ant | det |
| 10 | Ant | ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ant | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 chapter | punct |
| 13 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 understands | nsubj |
| 14 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 speech | det |
| 16 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 understands | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 birds | case |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 speech | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ants | cc |
| 20 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 birds | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 brings | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brings | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 bird | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hoopoe | det |
| 26 | hoopoe | hoopoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 understands | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brings | iobj |
| 29 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brings | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 queen | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 queen | det |
| 32 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 news | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Saba | case |
| 34 | Saba | Saba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 queen | nmod |
| 35 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 36 people | nmod:poss |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 worship | nsubj |
| 37 | worship | worship | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 queen | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sun | det |
| 39 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 worship | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 turns | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 turns | cc |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 end | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 end | det |
| 44 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 turns | obl |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 turns | nsubj |
| 46 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 brings | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 God | case |
| 48 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 turns | obl |
| 49 | together | together | ADV | _ | 46 turns | advmod |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 Solomon | case |
| 51 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 turns | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 understands | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the chapter not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | understand | present | Solomon | the speech of birds and ants | the Qur'an | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a bird not said here | the hoopoe | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | a bird | news of a queen of Saba | Solomon | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=Theme | |||
| 5 | worship | present | people | the sun | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | turn | present | Queen | God | in the end | with Solomon; together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in end=Trajectory | ||
| 7 | speak | birds and ants | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:8.
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 ×5, R7-rel-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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