--- title: At King Belshazzar's feast a hand wrote on the palace wall, and Dani… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics description: At King Belshazzar's feast a hand wrote on the palace wall, and Daniel explained that the king's kingdom would end; «the writing on the wall» now means a clear warning. Who acts: hand, Daniel, kingdom, writing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, Daniel, kingdom, writing), 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:10 # text = At King Belshazzar's feast a hand wrote on the palace wall, and Daniel explained that the king's kingdom would end; «the writing on the wall» now means a clear warning. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Belshazzar Belshazzar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 32 now now ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **write** | past | a hand | | | King's feast | | on the palace wall | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Daniel | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **end** | would | the king's kingdom | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **mean** | present | the writing on the wall | a clear warning | | | now | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=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](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:10`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/9/) - next →: [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/)