Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 12
Jacob tricked his blind father Isaac to take Esau's blessing (Genesis 27); he had to run away, was tricked in turn by his uncle Laban (Genesis 29), and years later Esau ran to hug him (Genesis 33:4).
Who acts: Jacob, righteous, uncle, Esau · What happens: trick, take, have, run away, run, hug · To what, where: blind father, blessing, turn, righteous
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (Jacob, righteous, uncle, Esau), 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 | Jacob | Jacob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tricked | nsubj |
| 2 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 father | amod |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tricked | obj |
| 6 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 father | appos |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tricked | advcl |
| 9 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Esau | case |
| 11 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Genesis | punct |
| 13 | Genesis | Genesis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blessing | appos |
| 14 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Genesis | flat |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Genesis | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tricked | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 run | mark |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 run | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tricked | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tricked | aux:pass |
| 24 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 turn | case |
| 26 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tricked | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 uncle | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tricked | obl |
| 30 | Laban | Laban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 uncle | appos |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 Genesis | punct |
| 32 | Genesis | Genesis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 29 | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 Laban | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 29 | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ran | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ran | cc |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 later | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 ran | advmod |
| 39 | Esau | Esau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 ran | nsubj |
| 40 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tricked | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 hug | mark |
| 42 | hug | hug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 ran | xcomp |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hug | obj |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 Genesis | punct |
| 45 | Genesis | Genesis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 ran | parataxis |
| 46 | 33:4 | 33:4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 Genesis | flat |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 Genesis | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tricked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past | Jacob | righteous's blind father | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Jacob not said here | Esau's blessing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | righteous | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run away | to-infinitive | righteous not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trick | past · passive | righteous's uncle | turn | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | run | past | Esau | late property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | hug | to-infinitive | Esau not said here | righteous | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | bless | Esau | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×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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