--- title: Saba was a real kingdom in what is now Yemen, rich from trading fran… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics description: Saba was a real kingdom in what is now Yemen, rich from trading frankincense and myrrh, sweet-smelling tree resins burned in temples; some people think Sheba included lands across the Red Sea in Ethiopia too. Who acts: Saba, people, Sheba. 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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 (Saba, people, Sheba), 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:11 # text = Saba was a real kingdom in what is now Yemen, rich from trading frankincense and myrrh, sweet-smelling tree resins burned in temples; some people think Sheba included lands across the Red Sea in Ethiopia too. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Saba Saba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 10 Yemen Yemen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 frankincense frankincense NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 myrrh myrrh NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 smelling smell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 resins resin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 24 burned burn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 temples temple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 31 Sheba Sheba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 included include VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 33 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 across across ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Red Red PROPN NNP _ 37 flat _ _ 37 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Ethiopia Ethiopia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 40 too too ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Saba | a real kingdom | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | a real kingdom | now | from trading frankincense and myrrh and smelling tree resins; rich *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **smell** | gerund | | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | participle | | smelling tree resins *not said here* | | temples | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some people | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **include** | past | Sheba | lands | | the Red Sea | | in Ethiopia *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent land=Theme in ethiopia=Goal | 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. 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