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title: Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics
description: Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was real and grew rich from incense, but no record outside these books tells of the visit. Who acts: Historians, kingdom, record. A sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the
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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 4

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Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was real and grew rich from incense, but no record outside these books tells of the visit.

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**Who acts:** Historians, kingdom, record · **What happens:** not check, be, grow, tell · **To what, where:** part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Historians, kingdom, record), 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:4
# text = Historians cannot check every part: the kingdom of Saba in Yemen was real and grew rich from incense, but no record outside these books tells of the visit.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Saba	Saba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **check** | can | Historians | every part |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the kingdom of Saba in Yemen |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the kingdom of Saba in Yemen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from incense; rich *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from incense=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | no record outside this books |  |  |  |  | of the visit | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:4`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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