--- title: Later, proud people tried to build a tower to reach heaven and make… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics description: Later, proud people tried to build a tower to reach heaven and make a name for themselves; God confused their language and scattered them, and the story explains why people speak many languages. Who acts: proud people, God, story, people. 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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 (proud people, God, story, people), 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:3 # text = Later, proud people tried to build a tower to reach heaven and make a name for themselves; God confused their language and scattered them, and the story explains why people speak many languages. # 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): no change 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 confused confuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 scattered scatter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | proud people | | | | | late *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | proud people *not said here* | a tower | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tower=Product | | 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | proud people *not said here* | heaven | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | proud people *not said here* | a name | | | | for people | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent name=Product for themselves=Asset | | 5 | **confuse** | past | God | people's language | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | | 6 | **scatter** | past | God *not said here* | people | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the story | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | people | many languages | | | | | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/2/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/)