Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 12

Many read the testing of Abraham as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that he provides; it is a hard story people still discuss.

Who acts: Many, testing, God, sacrifice, people · What happens: read, show, not want, provide, be, discuss · To what, where: testing, child sacrifice, hard story, Abraham · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» 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 (Many, testing, God, sacrifice), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 testing	det
4	testing	testing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Abraham	case
6	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 testing	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 showing	mark
8	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 testing	acl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 want	mark
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 want	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 showing	ccomp
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sacrifice	compound
15	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 provides	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 provides	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 provides	nsubj
19	provides	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 story	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 story	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 story	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 story	det
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 story	amod
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	parataxis
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 discuss	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 discuss	advmod
28	discuss	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 story	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 read	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	read	past	Many	the testing of Abraham		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testing=Topic
2	show	gerund	the testing of Abraham not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not want	present · do-support	God	child sacrifice		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sacrifice=Theme
4	provide	present	God			vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition
5	is a	present	sacrifice	a hard story		tree rules
6	discuss speech: other	present	people	a hard story not said here	still	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic
7	test			Abraham		nom testing «act transitive»: of=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:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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