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title: God then set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his covenant, a so… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: God then set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his covenant, a solemn promise, never again to destroy the earth by a 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 e
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# Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 2

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

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

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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:2
# text = God then set a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of his covenant, a solemn promise, never again to destroy the earth by a 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	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	covenant	covenant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | infinitive | God | a rainbow |  | the clouds | then | as a sign of God's covenant | 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 a flood | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | God's covenant |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **covenant** |  | God |  |  |  |  |  | nom covenant «communication intransitive»: 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.

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