Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, sentence 1
A clever serpent persuades Eve that God is keeping something good from her; she eats the fruit and gives some to Adam, and then they hide from God, Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent.
Who acts: clever serpent, God, serpent, Adam, Eve · What happens: persuade, keep, eat, give, hide, blame · To what, where: Eve, something, fruit, some, Adam, serpent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» 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 (clever serpent, God, serpent, Adam), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 2 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 serpent | amod |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persuades | nsubj |
| 4 | persuades | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 persuades | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 keeping | mark |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keeping | aux |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 persuades | ccomp |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 keeping | obj |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keeping | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 eats | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eats | nsubj |
| 16 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuades | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fruit | det |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eats | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gives | cc |
| 20 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eats | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 gives | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Adam | case |
| 23 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gives | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hide | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hide | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 hide | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hide | nsubj |
| 28 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eats | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 God | case |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 hide | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 blames | punct |
| 32 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 blames | nsubj |
| 33 | blames | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuades | conj |
| 34 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 blames | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 blames | cc |
| 36 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 blames | nsubj |
| 37 | blames | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 blames | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 serpent | det |
| 39 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blames | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuades | 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 | persuade | present | a clever serpent | Eve | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent eve=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · progressive | God | something | from Eve | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer something=Beneficiary from she=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | eat | present | serpent | the fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | present | serpent not said here | some | Adam | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to adam=Recipient | |||
| 5 | hide | present | Adam | then | from God | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from god=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | blame | present | Adam | Eve | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve=Theme | ||||
| 7 | blame | present | Eve | the serpent | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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