--- title: God gave Jonah a plant for shade and let it die, to teach him to car… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics description: God gave Jonah a plant for shade and let it die, to teach him to care for a city of people more than for a plant; the book ends with God's question to Jonah, left for every reader to answer. Who acts: God, plant, book. 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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 (God, plant, book), 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:14 # text = God gave Jonah a plant for shade and let it die, to teach him to care for a city of people more than for a plant; the book ends with God's question to Jonah, left for every reader to answer. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Jonah Jonah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Jonah Jonah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:acl 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | God | a plant | Jonah | | | for shade | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent jonah=Recipient plant=Theme for shade=Asset | | 2 | **let** | past | God *not said here* | plant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | infinitive | plant *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | | Jonah | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **care** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | | | | | for a city of people; than a plant | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for city=Theme | | 6 | **end** | present | the book | | | | | with God's question to Jonah | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with question=Subeventuality | | 7 | **leave** | past | God *not said here* | | | | | for every reader | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for reader=Recipient | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **question** | | God | | | | | to Jonah | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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:14`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/13/) - next →: [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/)