Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 15
Stories of great floods appear in many ancient cultures, for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia.
Who acts: Stories · What happens: appear · To what, where: many ancient cultures
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 (Stories), 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 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 floods | case |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 floods | amod |
| 4 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stories | nmod |
| 5 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cultures | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cultures | amod |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cultures | amod |
| 9 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 example | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 example | case |
| 12 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appear | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Epic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Epic | det |
| 15 | Epic | epic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appear | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Gilgamesh | case |
| 17 | Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Epic | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Mesopotamia | case |
| 19 | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Epic | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Stories of great floods | many ancient cultures | for example; in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in culture=Location |
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:15.
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): R8-pos-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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