--- title: Daniel kept praying to God three times a day despite a law forbiddin… — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics description: Daniel kept praying to God three times a day despite a law forbidding it, was thrown to the lions and was kept safe. Who acts: Daniel, law. 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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 (Daniel, law), 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:9 # text = Daniel kept praying to God three times a day despite a law forbidding it, was thrown to the lions and was kept safe. # 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 ×1 1 Daniel Daniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 praying pray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 despite despite ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 forbidding forbid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 24 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Daniel | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pray** | gerund | Daniel *not said here* | | God | | time | despite a law | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **forbid** | gerund | a law *not said here* | furnace | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | | 4 | **throw** | past · passive | Daniel *not said here* | | the lions | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: to lion=Destination | | 5 | **keep** | past · passive | Daniel *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/8/) - next →: [Daniel, Jonah and the prophets, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/)