Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, sentence 16
Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's sons; Cain grew jealous of Abel and killed him.
Who acts: Cain · What happens: be, grow, kill · To what, where: sons, Cain
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 (Cain), 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 | Cain | Cain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sons | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Abel | cc |
| 3 | Abel | Abel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cain | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sons | cop |
| 5 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Eve | cc |
| 7 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Adam | conj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Eve | case |
| 9 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grew | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Cain | punct |
| 11 | Cain | Cain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Abel | case |
| 15 | Abel | Abel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 jealous | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sons | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cain and Abel | Adam and Eve's sons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Cain | jealous property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | Cain not said here | Cain | vn remove-10.1 «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:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.lesson:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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