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title: Years later the prophet Samuel anointed the youngest shepherd boy, D… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: Years later the prophet Samuel anointed the youngest shepherd boy, David, as the future king, because «the Lord looks at the heart»; then the giant Goliath frightened the whole army, but David went out with a sling and five smooth stones and won with the first one. Who acts: prophet, Lord, giant Gol
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 2

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Years later the prophet Samuel anointed the youngest shepherd boy, David, as the future king, because «the Lord looks at the heart»; then the giant Goliath frightened the whole army, but David went out with a sling and five smooth stones and won with the first one.

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**Who acts:** prophet, Lord, giant Goliath, David · **What happens:** anoint, look, frighten, go out, win · **To what, where:** youngest shepherd boy, whole army

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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 (prophet, Lord, giant Goliath, David), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:2
# text = Years later the prophet Samuel anointed the youngest shepherd boy, David, as the future king, because «the Lord looks at the heart»; then the giant Goliath frightened the whole army, but David went out with a sling and five smooth stones and won with the first one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	anointed	anoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Goliath	goliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
41	out	out	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
47	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	won	win	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	54	amod	_	_
54	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anoint** | past | the prophet | the youngest shepherd boy |  |  |  | as the future king; late *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent boy=Result |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the Lord |  |  |  |  | at the heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heart=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | past | the giant Goliath | the whole army |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go out** | past | David |  |  |  |  | with a sling and five smooth stones; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sling=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **win** | past | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the first one | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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): 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.

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