Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 12
David refused King Saul's armour and took his sling and five smooth stones, trusting God.
Who acts: David · What happens: refuse, take, trust · To what, where: armour, sling, God
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 (David), 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 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Saul | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Saul | Saul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 armour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Saul | case |
| 6 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 refused | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sling | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stones | cc |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 stones | nummod |
| 13 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stones | amod |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sling | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trusting | punct |
| 16 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 trusting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | David | Saul King's armour | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | David not said here | David's sling and five smooth stones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sling=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trust | gerund | David not said here | God | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
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:12.
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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