--- title: Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age, but Isaac,… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age, but Isaac, whose name means "he laughs", was born; Abraham also welcomed three strangers with food and rest, who turned out to be God's messengers. Who acts: Sarah, name, Abraham, three strangers. 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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 (Sarah, name, Abraham, three strangers), 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:1 # text = Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age, but Isaac, whose name means "he laughs", was born; Abraham also welcomed three strangers with food and rest, who turned out to be God's messengers. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sarah Sarah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 also also ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 welcomed welcome VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=34:cc 36 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 43 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 xcomp _ _ 46 . . 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 | **laugh** | past | Sarah | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | Sarah *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | would | Sarah | a son | | | in old age | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 4 | **means** | present | name | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present | name | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bear** | past · passive | | Isaac | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **welcome** | past | Abraham | three strangers | | | | with food and rest | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | | 8 | **turn out** | past | three strangers | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **is a** | to-infinitive | three strangers *not said here* | God's messengers | | | | | 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:1`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/0/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)