Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 16
Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".
Who acts: Jacob · What happens: wrestle, rename, explain, struggle · To what, where: name · 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 (Jacob), 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 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wrestled | nsubj |
| 2 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrestled | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrestled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 renamed | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 renamed | aux:pass |
| 11 | renamed | rename | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wrestled | conj |
| 12 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 renamed | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Israel | appos |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 explained | advmod |
| 17 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 name | acl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 struggles | mark |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 struggles | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 struggles | nsubj |
| 21 | struggles | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 explained | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 God | case |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 struggles | obl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 struggles | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrestled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrestle | past | Jacob | night | with a mysterious man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | rename | past · passive | Jacob not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | participle | a name not said here | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | struggle in a quote | present | Jacob | with God | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with god=Co-Agent |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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