--- title: For a child today these stories mean: welcome the newcomer, be loyal… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics description: For a child today these stories mean: welcome the newcomer, be loyal to friends when it costs you, use the gifts you have instead of copying others, and do not take revenge even when you could. Who acts: stories, newcomer, you. 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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 (stories, newcomer, you), 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:4 # text = For a child today these stories mean: welcome the newcomer, be loyal to friends when it costs you, use the gifts you have instead of copying others, and do not take revenge even when you could. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 welcome welcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 newcomer newcomer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 14 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 22 advmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 copying copy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 obl _ _ 30 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 36 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 when when SCONJ WRB _ 40 mark _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | this stories | | | | | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **welcome** | infinitive | | the newcomer | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newcomer=Theme | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | to friends; loyal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **cost** | present | newcomer | you | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme you=Value | | 5 | **use** | infinitive | | the gifts | | | | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | | 6 | **have** | present | you | the gifts *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | | 7 | **copy** | gerund | | others | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 8 | **not** **take** | infinitive · do-support | | revenge | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | 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:008-ruth-and-david-and-goliath.lesson:4`. **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. **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: [Ruth, and David and Goliath, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/2/) - next →: [Ruth, and David and Goliath, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/)