--- title: Running away from Esau, Jacob dreamed of a ladder to heaven with ang… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: Running away from Esau, Jacob dreamed of a ladder to heaven with angels on it, and God promised to be with him. Who acts: Jacob, 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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 15 Running away from Esau, Jacob dreamed of a ladder to heaven with angels on it, and God promised to be with him. **Who acts:** Jacob, God · **What happens:** run away, dream, promise, be 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 (Jacob, 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:15 # text = Running away from Esau, Jacob dreamed of a ladder to heaven with angels on it, and God promised to be with him. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Esau Esau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 Jacob Jacob PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 dreamed dream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **run away** | gerund | Jacob *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dream** | past | Jacob | | | | | of a ladder to heaven with angels on heaven | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | God | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | | | | | with Jacob | 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. 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