Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 0

Genesis tells of Noah, a good man in a violent world, whom God told to build a huge wooden boat, the ark, for his family and pairs of every kind of animal.

Who acts: Genesis, God, Noah · What happens: tell, build · To what, where: Noah, huge wooden boat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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 (Genesis, God, Noah), 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	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Noah	case
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Noah	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 told	obj
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Noah	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 build	mark
18	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boat	det
20	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boat	amod
21	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boat	amod
22	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 build	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ark	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ark	det
25	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 boat	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 family	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 family	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 family	nmod:poss
29	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 build	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pairs	cc
31	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 family	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 kind	case
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 kind	det
34	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pairs	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 animal	case
36	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kind	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Genesis		of Noah	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	God	Noah		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
3	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	Noah not said here	a huge wooden boat	for God's family and pairs of every kind of animal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent boat=Material for family=Beneficiary

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:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:0.

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. 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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