Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 9
Saul hunted down the first Christians and approved the killing of Stephen.
Who acts: Saul · What happens: hunt down, approve, kill · To what, where: first Christians, killing, Stephen
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 (Saul), 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 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 hunted | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Christians | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 Christians | amod |
| 6 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 hunted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 approved | cc |
| 8 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunted | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 killing | det |
| 10 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 approved | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Stephen | case |
| 12 | Stephen | Stephen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killing | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunted | 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 | hunt down | past | Saul | the first Christians | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christian=Theme | ||||
| 2 | approve | past | Saul not said here | the killing of Stephen | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | kill | Stephen | nom killing «event transitive»: of=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:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.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 ×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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