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title: Jonah preached, the whole city of Nineveh repented, and God spared i… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics
description: Jonah preached, the whole city of Nineveh repented, and God spared it; Jonah was angry about this. Who acts: Jonah, whole city, 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 the pragmatics of every c
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# Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, sentence 13

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Jonah preached, the whole city of Nineveh repented, and God spared it; Jonah was angry about this.

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**Who acts:** Jonah, whole city, God · **What happens:** preach, repent, spare, be · **To what, where:** 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: who acts (Jonah, whole city, 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:13
# text = Jonah preached, the whole city of Nineveh repented, and God spared it; Jonah was angry about this.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	preached	preach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Nineveh	Nineveh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preach** *speech: other* | past | Jonah |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **repent** | past | the whole city of Nineveh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spare** | past | God | land |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | past | Jonah |  |  |  |  | about this; angry *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×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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