Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 1
In Israel Ruth gleaned, gathering the leftover grain in the field of Boaz, as God's law let the poor do; Boaz protected her, gave her extra grain and later married her, and Ruth became the great-grandmother of King David.
Who acts: Ruth, law, poor, Boaz · What happens: glean, gather, let, do, protect, give · To what, where: Israel, leftover grain, field, Ruth, extra grain, great grandmother
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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 (Ruth, law, poor, Boaz), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Israel | case |
| 2 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gleaned | obl |
| 3 | Ruth | Ruth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gleaned | nsubj |
| 4 | gleaned | glean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 protected | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathering | punct |
| 6 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gleaned | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grain | det |
| 8 | leftover | leftover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grain | compound |
| 9 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathering | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathering | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Boaz | case |
| 14 | Boaz | Boaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 field | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 law | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 God | case |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | nsubj |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gleaned | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poor | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 gleaned | punct |
| 25 | Boaz | Boaz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 protected | nsubj |
| 26 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 protected | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 protected | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | iobj |
| 31 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 grain | amod |
| 32 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 married | cc |
| 34 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 married | advmod |
| 35 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 protected | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 married | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 became | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 became | cc |
| 39 | Ruth | Ruth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 became | nsubj |
| 40 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 married | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 grandmother | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 grandmother | amod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 great | punct |
| 44 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 became | xcomp |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 David | case |
| 46 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 David | nmod:desc |
| 47 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 grandmother | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gleaned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glean | past | Ruth | Israel | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gather | gerund | Ruth not said here | the leftover grain | the field of Boaz | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | past | God's law | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | the poor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | protect | past | Boaz | Ruth | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | give | past | Boaz not said here | extra grain | Ruth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient grain=Theme | |||
| 7 | marry | past | Boaz not said here | Ruth | late property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 8 | become | past | Ruth | the great grandmother of David King | 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:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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