Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 9
Muslim tradition names the queen Bilqis, which Kipling spells Balkis; in Ethiopia's old book «The Glory of the Kings» she is called Makeda, and her son with Solomon, Menelik, becomes the first king of Ethiopia.
Who acts: Muslim tradition, Kipling, son · What happens: name, spell, call, become · To what, where: queen, Bilqis, old book, first king · 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 (Muslim tradition, Kipling, son), 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 | Muslim | Muslim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tradition | amod |
| 2 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 names | nsubj |
| 3 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 names | obj |
| 6 | Bilqis | Bilqis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spells | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 spells | obj |
| 9 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spells | nsubj |
| 10 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Bilqis | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Balkis | Balkis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 which | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 book | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 book | case |
| 14 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 book | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Ethiopia | case |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 book | amod |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | obl |
| 18 | « | « | ADP | _ | 20 Glory | case |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Glory | det |
| 20 | Glory | glory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 book | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kings | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Kings | det |
| 23 | Kings | king | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Glory | nmod |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 Glory | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 names | parataxis |
| 28 | Makeda | Makeda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 son | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 son | cc |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 becomes | nsubj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 Solomon | case |
| 34 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 son | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Menelik | punct |
| 36 | Menelik | Menelik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Solomon | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 becomes | punct |
| 38 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 king | det |
| 40 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 king | amod |
| 41 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 becomes | xcomp |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Ethiopia | case |
| 43 | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 king | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 names | 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 | name | present | Muslim tradition | the queen | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spell | present | Kipling | Bilqis | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | Queen | Ethiopia's old book | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | become | present | Queen's son with Solomon Menelik | the first king of Ethiopia | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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