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title: The Bible (1 Kings 10) says the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fa… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible (1 Kings 10) says the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem with camels carrying spices, gold and precious stones, to test him with hard questions. Who acts: Bible, Queen, camels. A sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and 
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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 6

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The Bible (1 Kings 10) says the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem with camels carrying spices, gold and precious stones, to test him with hard questions.

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**Who acts:** Bible, Queen, camels · **What happens:** say, hear, come, carry, test · **To what, where:** camels, Jerusalem, spices · **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 (Bible, Queen, camels), 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:6
# text = The Bible (1 Kings 10) says the Queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to Jerusalem with camels carrying spices, gold and precious stones, to test him with hard questions.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Sheba	Sheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
24	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl
25	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Queen of Sheba |  |  |  |  | of Solomon's fame | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fame=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Queen of Sheba *not said here* | camels |  | Jerusalem |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to jerusalem=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | camels *not said here* | spices and gold and precious stones |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme |
| 5 | **test** | to-infinitive | the Queen of Sheba *not said here* | Jerusalem |  |  |  | with hard questions | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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**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 ×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.

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