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title: Muslim tradition names the queen Bilqis, which Kipling spells Balkis… — Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in man… · tree and pragmatics
description: Muslim tradition names the queen Bilqis, which Kipling spells Balkis; in Ethiopia's old book «The Glory of the Kings» she is called Makeda, and her son with Solomon, Menelik, becomes the first king of Ethiopia. Who acts: Muslim tradition, Kipling, son. A sentence of the lesson «Solomon and the Queen
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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 9

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Muslim tradition names the queen Bilqis, which Kipling spells Balkis; in Ethiopia's old book «The Glory of the Kings» she is called Makeda, and her son with Solomon, Menelik, becomes the first king of Ethiopia.

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**Who acts:** Muslim tradition, Kipling, son · **What happens:** name, spell, call, become · **To what, where:** queen, Bilqis, old book, first king · **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 (Muslim tradition, Kipling, son), 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:9
# text = Muslim tradition names the queen Bilqis, which Kipling spells Balkis; in Ethiopia's old book «The Glory of the Kings» she is called Makeda, and her son with Solomon, Menelik, becomes the first king of Ethiopia.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Bilqis	Bilqis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
9	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spells	spell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
18	«	«	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Glory	glory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Kings	king	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
28	Makeda	Makeda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:appos
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Menelik	Menelik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	41	amod	_	_
41	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | **name** | present | Muslim tradition | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme |
| 2 | **spell** | present | Kipling | Bilqis |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | Queen |  | Ethiopia's old book |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **become** | present | Queen's son with Solomon  Menelik | the first king of Ethiopia |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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: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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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