Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 15

David had the chance to kill King Saul, who was hunting him, but refused to harm him.

Who acts: David · What happens: have, kill, hunt, refuse, not harm · To what, where: chance, King, David

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chance	det
4	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 chance	acl
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
8	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 King	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hunting	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hunting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hunting	aux
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kill	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hunting	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 refused	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 refused	cc
16	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 harm	mark
18	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 refused	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 harm	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	David	the chance	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	kill	to-infinitive	David not said here	King	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
3	hunt	past · progressive		David	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	refuse	past	David not said here		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not harm	to-infinitive	David not said here	David	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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:15.

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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