--- title: Many read the testing of Abraham as showing that God does not want c… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: Many read the testing of Abraham as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that he provides; it is a hard story people still discuss. Who acts: Many, testing, God, sacrifice. 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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 (Many, testing, God, sacrifice), 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:12 # text = Many read the testing of Abraham as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that he provides; it is a hard story people still discuss. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nsubj _ _ 2 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 testing testing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 14 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 provides provide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 discuss discuss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | past | Many | the testing of Abraham | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testing=Topic | | 2 | **show** | gerund | the testing of Abraham *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | God | child sacrifice | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sacrifice=Theme | | 4 | **provide** | present | God | | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | | 5 | **is a** | present | sacrifice | a hard story | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present | people | a hard story *not said here* | | | still | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | | 7 | **test** | | | Abraham | | | | | nom testing «act transitive»: of=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. 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