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title: Stories of great floods appear in many ancient cultures, for example… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: Stories of great floods appear in many ancient cultures, for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia. Who acts: Stories. 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 15

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Stories of great floods appear in many ancient cultures, for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia.

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**Who acts:** Stories · **What happens:** appear · **To what, where:** many ancient cultures

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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 (Stories), 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:15
# text = Stories of great floods appear in many ancient cultures, for example in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Epic	epic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Gilgamesh	Gilgamesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | Stories of great floods |  |  | many ancient cultures |  | for example; in the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in culture=Location |

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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): R8-pos-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/).

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