Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 12
A covenant is a solemn promise or agreement; in the Bible God made covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses and David.
Who acts: covenant, God · What happens: be, make · To what, where: solemn promise, covenants, Bible
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 (covenant, God), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 covenant | det |
| 2 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 promise | amod |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 agreement | cc |
| 8 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Bible | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bible | det |
| 12 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | parataxis |
| 15 | covenants | covenant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Noah | case |
| 17 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Abraham | punct |
| 19 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Noah | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Moses | punct |
| 21 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Noah | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 David | cc |
| 23 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Noah | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 promise | 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 | present | a covenant | a solemn promise or agreement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | God | covenants | the Bible | with Noah and Abraham and Moses and David | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covenant=Product |
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:12.
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): 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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