Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 8
In the story, rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; everything outside the ark was lost.
Who acts: rain, waters · What happens: fall, cover, lose · To what, where: story, earth, everything
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 (rain, waters), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 covered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 covered | nsubj |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lost | punct |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 20 ark | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ark | det |
| 20 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 everything | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fell | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | rain | the story | day | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in story=Location | |||
| 2 | cover | past | the waters | the earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | everything | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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:8.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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