Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 5

Nathan told King David a story about a rich man who took a poor man's only lamb; David was angry at the rich man, and Nathan said, "You are the man!", because David had done a worse wrong; a king could have punished him for saying it.

Who acts: Nathan, rich man, David, You, king · What happens: tell, take, be, say, do, punish · To what, where: story, David, only lamb, man, worse wrong, lamb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (Nathan, rich man, David, You), 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	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 David	nmod:desc
4	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lamb	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lamb	amod
18	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
20	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 angry	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 angry	cop
22	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 man	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 angry	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
29	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 man	punct
33	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 man	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 man	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	ccomp
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 man	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 man	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 done	mark
41	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 done	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 said	advcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 wrong	det
45	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 wrong	amod
46	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 done	obj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 king	det
49	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 punished	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 punished	aux
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 punished	aux
52	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	parataxis
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 punished	obj
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 saying	mark
55	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 punished	advcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 saying	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Nathan	a story	David King	about a rich man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent david=Recipient story=Topic
2	take	past	a rich man		a poor man's only lamb		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lamb=Destination
3	is	past	David			at the rich man; angry property	tree rules
4	say speech: express	past	Nathan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	You	the man			tree rules
6	do	past · perfect	David	a worse wrong			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Eventuality
7	punish	could · perfect	a king	David			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	say speech: assert	gerund	a king not said here	lamb			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:5.

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): 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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