Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 1

Then on the road to Damascus a bright light blinded him and Jesus spoke to him; he became a follower and was later called Paul.

Who acts: bright light, Jesus · What happens: blind, speak, become, call · To what, where: Damascus, road, light, follower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the way of love» 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 (bright light, Jesus), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 blinded	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 road	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blinded	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Damascus	case
6	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 road	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 light	det
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 light	amod
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blinded	nsubj
10	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blinded	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spoke	cc
13	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blinded	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spoke	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 follower	det
21	follower	follower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 became	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 called	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux:pass
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 called	advmod
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 became	conj
26	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 blinded	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	blind	past	a bright light	Damascus		the road to Damascus	then		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	Jesus		light				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	become	past	Jesus	a follower					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	call	past · passive	Jesus not said here					late property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.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 ×2, R6-punct-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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