Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 9

Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son was named Isaac, meaning "he laughs".

Who acts: Sarah, son · What happens: laugh, tell, have, name, mean · To what, where: son, old age · 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 (Sarah, son), 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	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 laughed	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 age	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 age	amod
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 named	punct
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 named	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 named	aux:pass
17	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 laughed	parataxis
18	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 named	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meaning	punct
20	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 named	advcl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 laughs	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughs	nsubj
23	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 meaning	ccomp
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 laughs	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	laugh	past	Sarah			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	participle	Sarah not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	would	Sarah	a son	in old age	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	name	past · passive		stars's son		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	mean	gerund				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	laugh in a quote	present	son			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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: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 ×1, 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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