--- title: The first time Noah sent out a dove it came back with nothing, as th… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics description: The first time Noah sent out a dove it came back with nothing, as there was nowhere dry to rest; the next time it came back with an olive leaf, showing the land was drying. Who acts: Noah, dove, land. 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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 (Noah, dove, land), 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:9 # text = The first time Noah sent out a dove it came back with nothing, as there was nowhere dry to rest; the next time it came back with an olive leaf, showing 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): R5-strong ×7 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dove dove NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:mark 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:expl 17 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 olive olive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:obj 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 drying dry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 ccomp _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **send out** | past | Noah | a dove | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme | | 2 | **come back** | past | dove | | | | time | with nothing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | past | dove *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | dove *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come back** | past | dove | the next time *not said here* | | | | with a olive leaf | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | | 6 | **show** | gerund | 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:9`. **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 ×7. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/8/) - next →: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/)