--- title: Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son w… — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob · tree and pragmatics description: Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son was named Isaac, meaning "he laughs". Who acts: Sarah, son. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sentence 9 Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son was named Isaac, meaning "he laughs". **Who acts:** Sarah, son · **What happens:** laugh, tell, have, name, mean · **To what, where:** son, old age · **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 (Sarah, son), 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:9 # text = Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; their son was named Isaac, meaning "he laughs". # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sarah Sarah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 Isaac Isaac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 . . 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 | **laugh** | past | Sarah | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | Sarah *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | would | Sarah | a son | | | in old age | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 4 | **name** | past · passive | | stars's son | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present | son | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/8/) - next →: [Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/)