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title: David's son Solomon, offered anything by God, asked for wisdom to ru… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: David's son Solomon, offered anything by God, asked for wisdom to rule well instead of riches, and he showed it when two women both claimed one baby: the real mother gave the baby up rather than let it be harmed. Who acts: son Solomon, Solomon, two women, real mother. A sentence of the lesson «King 
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 2

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David's son Solomon, offered anything by God, asked for wisdom to rule well instead of riches, and he showed it when two women both claimed one baby: the real mother gave the baby up rather than let it be harmed.

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**Who acts:** son Solomon, Solomon, two women, real mother, baby · **What happens:** offer, ask, rule, show, claim, give up · **To what, where:** anything, wisdom, one baby, baby

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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 (son Solomon, Solomon, two women, real mother), 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:2
# text = David's son Solomon, offered anything by God, asked for wisdom to rule well instead of riches, and he showed it when two women both claimed one baby: the real mother gave the baby up rather than let it be harmed.
# 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 ×1
1	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Solomon	solomon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	both	both	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
40	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	42	cc	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	xcomp	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **offer** | participle | son Solomon *not said here* | anything |  |  |  | by God | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | son Solomon |  |  |  |  | for wisdom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rule** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | son Solomon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead riches; well *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | past | Solomon | wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 5 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | two women | one baby |  |  |  | both *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent baby=Topic |
| 6 | **give up** | past | the real mother | the baby |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Source |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive | the real mother *not said here* | baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **harm** | infinitive · passive | baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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 ×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.

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