Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 13
Some Christians read the flood as a worldwide event, others as a local flood or a teaching story (disputed).
Who acts: Christians · What happens: read, dispute · To what, where: flood, teaching story
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 (Christians), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Christians | det |
| 2 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flood | det |
| 5 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 event | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 event | det |
| 8 | worldwide | worldwide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 event | amod |
| 9 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 others | punct |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 event | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 flood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flood | det |
| 14 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flood | amod |
| 15 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 story | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 story | compound |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flood | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 disputed | punct |
| 21 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 story | acl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 disputed | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | some Christians | the flood | as a worldwide event and others; as a local flood or a teaching story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flood=Stimulus as event=Attribute | |||
| 2 | dispute | participle | a teaching story not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:13.
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): no change. 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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