--- title: God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac, then stopped him and provid… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead. Who acts: God. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/) / 11 # Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 11 God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead. **Who acts:** God · **What happens:** tell, offer, stop, provide · **To what, where:** Abraham, Isaac, son, ram · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (God), 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:11 # text = God told Abraham to offer his son Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead. # 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 1 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:poss 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 provided provide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | God | | Abraham | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent abraham=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **offer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | Isaac | Abraham's son | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent son=Goal isaac=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | past | | Abraham | | | then | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | | 4 | **provide** | past | | a ram | | | | instead *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ram=Theme | 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:11`. **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. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/10/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)