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title: God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the… — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the shepherd boy David, as the future king. Who acts: God. A sentence of the lesson «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ruth, and David and Goliath, sentence 9

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God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the shepherd boy David, as the future king.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** send, anoint · **To what, where:** prophet, youngest son

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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 (God), 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:9
# text = God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the shepherd boy David, as the future king.
# 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): no change
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	anoint	anoint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Jesse	Jesse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | God | the prophet |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme |
| 2 | **anoint** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | the youngest son of Jesse |  |  |  | as the future king | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent son=Result |

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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): no change. **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/).

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