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title: David became Israel's greatest king and made Jerusalem his capital. — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: David became Israel's greatest king and made Jerusalem his capital. Who acts: David. 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 every clause.
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 5

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David became Israel's greatest king and made Jerusalem his capital.

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**Who acts:** David · **What happens:** become, make · **To what, where:** greatest king, Jerusalem

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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:5
# text = David became Israel's greatest king and made Jerusalem his capital.
# 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): no change
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	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 *not said here* | Jerusalem |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jerusalem=Product |

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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:5`.

**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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