Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 3
Isaac's son Jacob tricked his twin Esau out of his birthright and blessing, ran away, dreamed of a ladder to heaven, later wrestled all night and was renamed Israel; his twelve sons became the twelve tribes.
Who acts: son, twelve sons · What happens: trick, run away, dream, wrestle, rename, become · To what, where: twin, birthright, Israel, twelve tribes
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 (son, twelve sons), 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 | Isaac | isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Isaac | case |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tricked | nsubj |
| 4 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | flat |
| 5 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 twin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tricked | obj |
| 8 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tricked | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 birthright | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 birthright | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 birthright | nmod:poss |
| 12 | birthright | birthright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tricked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blessing | cc |
| 14 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 birthright | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricked | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dreamed | punct |
| 19 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricked | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ladder | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ladder | det |
| 22 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dreamed | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heaven | case |
| 24 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ladder | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wrestled | punct |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 wrestled | advmod |
| 27 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricked | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 night | det |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wrestled | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 renamed | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 renamed | aux:pass |
| 32 | renamed | rename | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 wrestled | conj |
| 33 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 renamed | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 became | punct |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sons | nmod:poss |
| 36 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 sons | nummod |
| 37 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 became | nsubj |
| 38 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tricked | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tribes | det |
| 40 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 tribes | nummod |
| 41 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 became | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tricked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past | Isaac's son | Isaac's twin | Isaac's birthright and blessing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run away | past | Isaac's son not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dream | past | Isaac's son not said here | of a ladder to heaven | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wrestle | past | Isaac's son not said here | night | late property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | rename | past · passive | Isaac's son not said here | Israel | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: israel=Result | ||||
| 6 | become | past | Isaac's twelve sons | the twelve tribes | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:3.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×3, 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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