--- title: God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God wo… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation with descendants as many as the stars; Jews, Christians and Muslims all honour him as a father of faith. Who acts: God, Jews. 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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 (God, Jews), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:0 # text = God called Abram (later Abraham) to leave his home for a land God would show him, promising to make him a great nation with descendants as many as the stars; Jews, Christians and Muslims all honour him as a father of faith. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Abram Abram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 5 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 6 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 promising promise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 nation nation NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 descendants descendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 Jews Jew PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 39 Muslims Muslim PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 40 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 honour honour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | God | | Abram | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abram=Recipient | | 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | God's home | | | | for a land | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent home=Theme for land=Recipient | | 3 | **show** | would | God | a land *not said here* | Abram | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | God *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | Abram | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 6 | **honour** | present | Jews and Christians and Muslims | Abram | | | | as a father of faith; all *property* | 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:004-abraham-isaac-and-jacob.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Noah and the Tower of Babel, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/19/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)