--- title: Genesis tells of Noah, a good man in a violent world, whom God told… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics description: Genesis tells of Noah, a good man in a violent world, whom God told to build a huge wooden boat, the ark, for his family and pairs of every kind of animal. Who acts: Genesis, God, Noah. 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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 (Genesis, God, Noah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:0 # text = Genesis tells of Noah, a good man in a violent world, whom God told to build a huge wooden boat, the ark, for his family and pairs of every kind of animal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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 1 Genesis Genesis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 obj _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ark ark NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Genesis | | | | | of Noah | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | God | Noah | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Noah *not said here* | a huge wooden boat | | | | for God's family and pairs of every kind of animal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent boat=Material for family=Beneficiary | 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:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:0`. **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. **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, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/2-adam-and-eve-cain-and-abel/18/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/)