Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 8

God told Abraham to look at the stars and try to count them: his descendants would be as many.

Who acts: God, descendants · What happens: tell, look, try, count, be · To what, where: Abraham, stars · 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 (God, descendants), 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	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 stars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stars	det
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 try	cc
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 look	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 count	mark
12	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 try	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 count	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 descendants	nmod:poss
16	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 many	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 many	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 many	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	God		Abraham		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent abraham=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	God not said here			at the stars	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at star=Theme
3	try	infinitive	God not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	count not said to happen	to-infinitive	God not said here	stars = star			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is	would	Abraham's descendants			many property	tree rules

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: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): no change. 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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