--- title: Their son Cain grows jealous of his brother Abel and kills him; when… — Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel · tree and pragmatics description: Their son Cain grows jealous of his brother Abel and kills him; when God asks where Abel is, Cain answers "Am I my brother's keeper?", and the Bible's answer is yes. Who acts: son, God, Abel, Cain. 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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 (son, God, Abel, Cain), 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:3 # text = Their son Cain grows jealous of his brother Abel and kills him; when God asks where Abel is, Cain answers "Am I my brother's keeper?", and the Bible's answer is yes. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 3 Cain Cain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 4 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod:poss 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 9 Abel Abel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 kills kill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 18 Abel Abel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Cain Cain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 Am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 38 discourse _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Adam's son | | | | | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **kill** | present | Adam's son *not said here* | son | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | God | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | present | Abel | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **answer** *speech: ask* | present | Cain | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Cain | my brother's keeper | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | present | the Bible's answer | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **answer** | | the Bible | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:002-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel.lesson:3`. **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 ×5, 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/). - ← previous: [Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/2/) - next →: [Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/)