The birth of Jesus, sentence 7
Joseph was a carpenter who was told in a dream to take Mary as his wife and care for the child.
Who acts: Joseph, carpenter · What happens: be, tell, take, care · To what, where: carpenter, dream, Mary · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The birth of Jesus» 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 (Joseph, carpenter), 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 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carpenter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carpenter | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 carpenter | det |
| 4 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carpenter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 13 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wife | cc |
| 18 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 child | det |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 care | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carpenter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Joseph | a carpenter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | a carpenter | a dream | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | a carpenter not said here | Mary | as Joseph's wife | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mary=Theme as wife=Attribute | |||
| 4 | care | infinitive | a carpenter not said here | for the child | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=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:012-the-birth-of-jesus.lesson:7.
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): no change. 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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