--- title: A clever serpent persuades Eve that God is keeping something good fr… — Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel · tree and pragmatics description: A clever serpent persuades Eve that God is keeping something good from her; she eats the fruit and gives some to Adam, and then they hide from God, Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent. Who acts: clever serpent, God, serpent, Adam. 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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 (clever serpent, God, serpent, Adam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.lesson:1 # text = A clever serpent persuades Eve that God is keeping something good from her; she eats the fruit and gives some to Adam, and then they hide from God, Adam blames Eve and Eve blames the serpent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 persuades persuade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 29 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **persuade** | present | a clever serpent | Eve | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent eve=Patient clause=Result | | 2 | **keep** | present · progressive | God | something | | | | from Eve | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer something=Beneficiary from she=Eventuality | | 3 | **eat** | present | serpent | the fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 4 | **give** | present | serpent *not said here* | some | Adam | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to adam=Recipient | | 5 | **hide** | present | Adam | | | | then | from God | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from god=Beneficiary | | 6 | **blame** | present | Adam | Eve | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eve=Theme | | 7 | **blame** | present | Eve | the serpent | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | 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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