Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 7
Gleaning meant gathering grain left at the edges of a field; God's law let the poor and foreigners do it.
Who acts: Gleaning, law, poor · What happens: mean, gather, leave, let, do · To what, where: grain, edges, law
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 (Gleaning, law, poor), 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 | Gleaning | Gleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 meant | xcomp |
| 4 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathering | obj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grain | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 edges | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edges | det |
| 8 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 edges | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 law | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 God | case |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 meant | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poor | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 foreigners | cc |
| 20 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 poor | conj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | Gleaning | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gather not said to happen | gerund | Gleaning not said here | grain | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | grain not said here | the edges of a field | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | ||||
| 4 | let | past | God's law | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | present | the poor and foreigners | law | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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