Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 9
God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the shepherd boy David, as the future king.
Who acts: God · What happens: send, anoint · To what, where: prophet, youngest son
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 (God), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prophet | det |
| 4 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prophet | appos |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 anoint | mark |
| 7 | anoint | anoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anoint | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Jesse | case |
| 12 | Jesse | Jesse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boy | compound |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Jesse | appos |
| 17 | David | David | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 boy | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 21 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 king | amod |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anoint | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | God | the prophet | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | anoint | to-infinitive | God not said here | the youngest son of Jesse | as the future king | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent son=Result |
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:9.
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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