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title: In a storm Jonah was thrown overboard, swallowed by a great fish and… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics
description: In a storm Jonah was thrown overboard, swallowed by a great fish and spat out on land after three days. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 12

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In a storm Jonah was thrown overboard, swallowed by a great fish and spat out on land after three days.

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**What happens:** throw, swallow, spit out · **To what, where:** Jonah, land

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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: 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:12
# text = In a storm Jonah was thrown overboard, swallowed by a great fish and spat out on land after three days.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	overboard	overboard	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spat	spit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive |  | Jonah |  |  |  | a storm *obl*; overboard *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a great fish | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spit out** | participle |  |  |  | land | day |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on land=Destination |

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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.

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**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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×5, 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/).

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