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title: Many psalms are linked with King David, who was a shepherd boy befor… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Many psalms are linked with King David, who was a shepherd boy before he became king. Who acts: David, Book. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 6

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Many psalms are linked with King David, who was a shepherd boy before he became king.

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**Who acts:** David, Book · **What happens:** link, be, become · **To what, where:** Many psalms, shepherd boy, king

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» 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 (David, Book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:6
# text = Many psalms are linked with King David, who was a shepherd boy before he became king.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	psalms	psalm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **link** | present · passive |  | Many psalms |  |  |  | with David  King | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with david=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | David  King | a shepherd boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | Book | king |  |  |  |  | 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:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:6`.

**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): R7-rel-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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