Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 9

The first time Noah sent out a dove it came back with nothing, as there was nowhere dry to rest; the next time it came back with an olive leaf, showing the land was drying.

Who acts: Noah, dove, land · What happens: send out, come back, be, rest, show, dry · To what, where: dove, next time · 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, dove, land), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl:unmarked
4	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sent	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dove	det
8	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 nothing	case
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	advcl
18	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 dry	advmod
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dry	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 drying	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	acl:relcl
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 leaf	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 leaf	det
31	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leaf	amod
32	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 showing	punct
34	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 came	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 land	det
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drying	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 drying	aux
38	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 showing	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	Noah	a dove				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme
2	come back	past	dove			time	with nothing	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	dove not said here		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rest	to-infinitive	dove not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come back	past	dove	the next time not said here			with a olive leaf	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
6	show	gerund	dove not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	dry	past · progressive	the land					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:9.

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 ×7. 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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