Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 2
Years later the prophet Samuel anointed the youngest shepherd boy, David, as the future king, because «the Lord looks at the heart»; then the giant Goliath frightened the whole army, but David went out with a sling and five smooth stones and won with the first one.
Who acts: prophet, Lord, giant Goliath, David · What happens: anoint, look, frighten, go out, win · To what, where: youngest shepherd boy, whole army
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 (prophet, Lord, giant Goliath, 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 later | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 anointed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prophet | det |
| 4 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anointed | nsubj |
| 5 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prophet | appos |
| 6 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 boy | amod |
| 9 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boy | compound |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anointed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 David | punct |
| 12 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 boy | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 king | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 16 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 king | amod |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 anointed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looks | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 looks | mark |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 looks | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lord | det |
| 22 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 looks | nsubj |
| 23 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 anointed | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looks | obl |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 looks | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 Goliath | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 frightened | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Goliath | det |
| 31 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Goliath | amod |
| 32 | Goliath | goliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 frightened | nsubj |
| 33 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 anointed | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 army | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 army | amod |
| 36 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 frightened | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 went | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 went | cc |
| 39 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 went | nsubj |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 anointed | conj |
| 41 | out | out | ADV | _ | 40 went | advmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 sling | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 sling | det |
| 44 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 went | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 stones | cc |
| 46 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 stones | nummod |
| 47 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 stones | amod |
| 48 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sling | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 won | cc |
| 50 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 went | conj |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 one | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 one | det |
| 53 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 54 one | amod |
| 54 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 won | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 anointed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anoint | past | the prophet | the youngest shepherd boy | as the future king; late property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent boy=Result | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | the Lord | at the heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | frighten | past | the giant Goliath | the whole army | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | go out | past | David | with a sling and five smooth stones; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sling=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | win | past | David not said here | with the first one | vn succeed-74-2 «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:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:2.
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): 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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