--- title: In a hard story, God told Abraham to offer Isaac, then stopped him a… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: In a hard story, God told Abraham to offer Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead; many read it as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that God provides. Who acts: God, many. 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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 (God, many), 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:2 # text = In a hard story, God told Abraham to offer Isaac, then stopped him and provided a ram instead; many read it as showing that God does not want child sacrifice and that God provides. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Abraham Abraham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 provided provide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ram ram NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 instead instead ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 nsubj _ _ 23 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 32 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 sacrifice sacrifice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 provides provide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | God | | Abraham | a hard story | | | 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 | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent isaac=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | past | God *not said here* | Abraham | | | then | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | | 4 | **provide** | past | God *not said here* | a ram | | | | instead *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ram=Theme | | 5 | **read** | past | many | ram | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **show** | gerund | many *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | God | child sacrifice | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sacrifice=Theme | | 8 | **provide** | present | God | | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/1/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)