Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 11
Goliath was a giant Philistine warrior who challenged Israel's army to send one man to fight him, and everyone was afraid.
Who acts: Goliath, giant Philistine warrior, everyone · What happens: be, challenge, send, fight · To what, where: giant Philistine warrior, army, one man, man
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 (Goliath, giant Philistine warrior, everyone), 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 | Goliath | Goliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 warrior | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 warrior | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 warrior | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | amod |
| 5 | Philistine | philistine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warrior | compound |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 challenged | nsubj |
| 8 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 army | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Israel | case |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 challenged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 send | mark |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 challenged | xcomp |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 man | nummod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fight | mark |
| 17 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 send | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fight | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 afraid | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 afraid | cc |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 afraid | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 afraid | cop |
| 23 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warrior | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Goliath | a giant Philistine warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | challenge | past | a giant Philistine warrior | Israel's army | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | a giant Philistine warrior not said here | one man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | a giant Philistine warrior not said here | man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | everyone | afraid 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:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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