Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 2

God then set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his covenant, a solemn promise, never again to destroy the earth by a flood.

Who acts: God · What happens: set, destroy, sign, covenant · To what, where: rainbow, clouds, earth, covenant

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	3 set	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rainbow	det
5	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 sign	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 covenant	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 covenant	nmod:poss
14	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 promise	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 promise	det
17	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 promise	amod
18	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covenant	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 destroy	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 again	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	23 destroy	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 destroy	mark
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 promise	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 destroy	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 flood	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 flood	det
28	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 destroy	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	infinitive	God	a rainbow	the clouds	then	as a sign of God's covenant	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rainbow=Theme in cloud=Destination
2	destroy	to-infinitive	God not said here	the earth		again	by a flood	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
3	sign			God's covenant				nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	covenant		God					nom covenant «communication intransitive»: poss=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:2.

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): R5-strong ×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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