Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 3
Later, proud people tried to build a tower to reach heaven and make a name for themselves; God confused their language and scattered them, and the story explains why people speak many languages.
Who acts: proud people, God, story, people · What happens: try, build, reach, make, confuse, scatter · To what, where: tower, heaven, name, language, people, many languages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (proud people, God, story, people), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 tried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 build | mark |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tower | det |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 build | advcl |
| 12 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reach | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 themselves | case |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 make | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 confused | punct |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 confused | nsubj |
| 21 | confused | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 language | nmod:poss |
| 23 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confused | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scattered | cc |
| 25 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 confused | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 scattered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 explains | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 explains | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 story | det |
| 30 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 explains | nsubj |
| 31 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | conj |
| 32 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 speak | advmod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 speak | nsubj |
| 34 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 explains | ccomp |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 languages | amod |
| 36 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 speak | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | 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 | try | past | proud people | late property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | proud people not said here | a tower | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tower=Product | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | proud people not said here | heaven | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | proud people not said here | a name | for people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent name=Product for themselves=Asset | |||
| 5 | confuse | past | God | people's language | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | ||||
| 6 | scatter | past | God not said here | people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | explain speech: assert | present | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | speak speech: other | infinitive | people | many languages | tree rules |
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:3.
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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