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title: Solomon built the first great Temple in Jerusalem as a house for wor… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: Solomon built the first great Temple in Jerusalem as a house for worshipping God, yet he prayed that even the heavens cannot contain God, much less a house. Who acts: Solomon, heavens. A sentence of the lesson «King David and King Solomon» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with 
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 12

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Solomon built the first great Temple in Jerusalem as a house for worshipping God, yet he prayed that even the heavens cannot contain God, much less a house.

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**Who acts:** Solomon, heavens · **What happens:** build, pray, not contain · **To what, where:** first great Temple, Jerusalem, God

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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 (Solomon, heavens), 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:12
# text = Solomon built the first great Temple in Jerusalem as a house for worshipping God, yet he prayed that even the heavens cannot contain God, much less a house.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Solomon	solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	worshipping	worshipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
26	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **build** | past | Solomon | the first great Temple |  | Jerusalem |  | as a house for God  worshipping | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Product |
| 2 | **pray** | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **contain** | can | the heavens | God |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot god=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:12`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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