Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 6
Noah was a good man in a violent world whom God told to build a great boat, the ark.
Who acts: Noah, God, good man · What happens: be, tell, build · To what, where: good man, violent world, great boat · 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 (Noah, God, good man), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 8 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 told | obj |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 build | mark |
| 14 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boat | amod |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 build | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ark | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ark | det |
| 20 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boat | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Noah | a good man | a violent world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | God | a good man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | a good man not said here | a great boat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product |
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:6.
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, 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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