--- title: Rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; when the… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics description: Rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; when the rain stopped, Noah sent out a dove, which came back with an olive leaf to show the land was drying. Who acts: Rain, waters, Noah, dove. 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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 (Rain, waters, Noah, dove), 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:1 # text = Rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; when the rain stopped, Noah sent out a dove, which came back with an olive leaf to show the land was drying. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 waters water NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 olive olive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 drying dry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **fall** | past | Rain | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cover** | past | the waters | the earth | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Destination | | 3 | **stop** | past | the rain | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **send out** | past | Noah | a dove | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme | | 5 | **come back** | past | a dove | | | | | with a olive leaf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | a dove *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **dry** | past · progressive | the land | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/0/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/)