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title: Ethiopia's emperors claimed to come from Solomon and the Queen of Sh… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ethiopia's emperors claimed to come from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba right up to the last emperor, Haile Selassie, whose reign ended in 1974. Who acts: emperors, reign. A sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of 
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# Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn, sentence 10

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Ethiopia's emperors claimed to come from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba right up to the last emperor, Haile Selassie, whose reign ended in 1974.

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**Who acts:** emperors, reign · **What happens:** claim, come, ended · **To what, where:** Solomon, 1974

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» 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 (emperors, reign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:10
# text = Ethiopia's emperors claimed to come from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba right up to the last emperor, Haile Selassie, whose reign ended in 1974.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	emperors	emperor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Haile	Haile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	Selassie	Selassie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj
26	ended	ended	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1974	1974	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | Ethiopia's emperors |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Ethiopia's emperors *not said here* |  |  | Solomon and the Queen of Sheba |  | up the last emperor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from solomon=Initial\_Location up emperor=Destination |
| 3 | **ended** | past | reign |  |  | 1974 |  |  | 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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**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:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn.lesson:10`.

**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, R8-pos-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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