Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 17
God confused their language and scattered them over the earth.
Who acts: God · What happens: confuse, scatter · To what, where: language, cultures, earth
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 (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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 confused | nsubj |
| 2 | confused | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 language | nmod:poss |
| 4 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confused | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 scattered | cc |
| 6 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 confused | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scattered | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scattered | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | past | God | cultures's language | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scatter | past | God not said here | cultures = culture | the earth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over earth=Destination |
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:17.
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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