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title: Abraham welcomed three travellers with food and rest; they turned ou… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics
description: Abraham welcomed three travellers with food and rest; they turned out to be messengers of God. Who acts: Abraham, travellers. A sentence of the lesson «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 10

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Abraham welcomed three travellers with food and rest; they turned out to be messengers of God.

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**Who acts:** Abraham, travellers · **What happens:** welcome, turn out, be · **To what, where:** three travellers, messengers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» 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 (Abraham, travellers), 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:10
# text = Abraham welcomed three travellers with food and rest; they turned out to be messengers of God.
# 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | past | Abraham | three travellers |  |  |  | with food and rest | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme |
| 2 | **turn out** | past | travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | travellers *= traveller* *not said here* | messengers |  |  |  | of God | tree rules |

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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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**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:10`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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