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title: God set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his promise never again… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: God set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his promise never again to destroy the earth by flood. Who acts: God. A sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 11

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God set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his promise never again to destroy the earth by flood.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** set, destroy, sign, promise · **To what, where:** rainbow, clouds, earth, promise

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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 (God), 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:11
# text = God set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his promise never again to destroy the earth by flood.
# 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 ×1
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **set** | past | God | a rainbow |  | the clouds |  | as a sign of God's promise | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rainbow=Theme in cloud=Destination |
| 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | the earth |  |  | again | by flood | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | God's promise |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **promise** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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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