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title: Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws an… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics
description: Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws and stayed healthy on vegetables and water. Who acts: Daniel. 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 6

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Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws and stayed healthy on vegetables and water.

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**Who acts:** Daniel · **What happens:** keep, stay · **To what, where:** food laws

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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 (Daniel), 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:6
# text = Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws and stayed healthy on vegetables and water.
# 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): no change
1	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **keep** | past | Daniel and God's friends | God's food laws |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | past | Daniel and God's friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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