Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 1

Rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; when the rain stopped, Noah sent out a dove, which came back with an olive leaf to show the land was drying.

Who acts: Rain, waters, Noah, dove, land · What happens: fall, cover, stop, send out, come back, show · To what, where: earth, dove · 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 (Rain, waters, Noah, dove), 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	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 covered	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waters	det
8	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 covered	nsubj
9	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stopped	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 stopped	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rain	det
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopped	nsubj
16	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
18	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 sent	compound:prt
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dove	det
22	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dove	acl:relcl
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 leaf	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 leaf	det
29	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaf	amod
30	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 show	mark
32	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 land	det
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drying	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 drying	aux
36	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 show	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Rain		day		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cover	past	the waters	the earth			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination
3	stop	past	the rain				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	send out	past	Noah	a dove			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme
5	come back	past	a dove			with a olive leaf	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	show	to-infinitive	a dove not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	dry	past · progressive	the land				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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