--- title: Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics description: Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times. Who acts: Prophets, messengers, God. A sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/) / 0 # Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 0 Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times. **Who acts:** Prophets, messengers, God · **What happens:** be, speak, warn, give, word · **To what, where:** messengers, word, kings, hope · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» 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 (Prophets, messengers, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:0 # text = Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 Prophets prophet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 warned warn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 kings king NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 injustice injustice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | past | Prophets | messengers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | messengers | God's word | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | Prophets *= prophet* | | kings and people | | | about injustice | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about injustice=Topic | | 4 | **give** | past | Prophets *= prophet* *not said here* | hope | | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme | | 5 | **word** | | God | | | | | | nom word «communication 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:010-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [King David and King Solomon, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/16/) - next →: [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/)