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title: David became Israel's greatest king: he made Jerusalem his capital a… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: David became Israel's greatest king: he made Jerusalem his capital and danced with joy before God, but he also did a terrible wrong when he took Bathsheba, another man's wife, and arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle. Who acts: David. A sentence of the lesson «King David and King So
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 0

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David became Israel's greatest king: he made Jerusalem his capital and danced with joy before God, but he also did a terrible wrong when he took Bathsheba, another man's wife, and arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** become, make, dance, do, take, arrange · **To what, where:** greatest king, capital, Jerusalem, terrible wrong, Bathsheba, husband

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:009-king-david-and-king-solomon.lesson:0
# text = David became Israel's greatest king: he made Jerusalem his capital and danced with joy before God, but he also did a terrible wrong when he took Bathsheba, another man's wife, and arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 009-king-david-and-king-solomon.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Israel	Israel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis
30	Bathsheba	Bathsheba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl
42	Uriah	Uriah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	advcl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	.	.	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 | **become** | past | David | Israel's greatest king |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | David | David's capital | Jerusalem |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset jerusalem=Beneficiary capital=Product |
| 3 | **dance** | past | David *not said here* |  |  |  | before God | with joy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before god=Location |
| 4 | **do** | past | David | a terrible wrong |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Eventuality |
| 5 | **take** | past | David |  | Bathsheba |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bathsheba=Destination |
| 6 | **arrange** | past | David *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **kill** | to-infinitive · passive |  | wife's husband |  | battle |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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