Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 19
Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in many languages, as the reversal of Babel.
Who acts: Christians · What happens: see, understand, reverse · To what, where: Pentecost, followers, many languages, Babel
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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 understood | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 understood | advmod |
| 6 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 followers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jesus | case |
| 8 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understood | aux:pass |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Pentecost | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 languages | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 languages | amod |
| 13 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 understood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reversal | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 reversal | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reversal | det |
| 17 | reversal | reversal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Babel | case |
| 19 | Babel | Babel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reversal | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Christians | Pentecost | as the reversal of Babel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pentecost=Stimulus as reversal=Attribute | |||
| 2 | understand | past · passive | Jesus's followers | many languages | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reverse | Babel | nom reversal «act transitive»: of=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:19.
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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