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title: When God offered Solomon anything, he asked for wisdom to rule well,… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: When God offered Solomon anything, he asked for wisdom to rule well, not riches or a long life, and God gave him riches as well. Who acts: God. A sentence of the lesson «King David and King Solomon» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 10

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When God offered Solomon anything, he asked for wisdom to rule well, not riches or a long life, and God gave him riches as well.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** offer, ask, rule, give · **To what, where:** anything, Solomon, riches

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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 (God), 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:10
# text = When God offered Solomon anything, he asked for wisdom to rule well, not riches or a long life, and God gave him riches as well.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	fixed	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | God | anything | Solomon |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent solomon=Goal anything=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | God |  |  |  |  | for wisdom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rule** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | God | riches | Solomon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rich=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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**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:009-king-david-and-king-solomon.lesson:10`.

**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 ×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/).

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