--- title: The prophet Nathan told David a story of a rich man stealing a poor… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics description: The prophet Nathan told David a story of a rich man stealing a poor man's lamb, then said «You are the man». Who acts: prophet, rich man, You. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophet, rich man, You), 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:8 # text = The prophet Nathan told David a story of a rich man stealing a poor man's lamb, then said «You are the man». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prophet prophet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Nathan Nathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 David David PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 stealing steal VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 lamb lamb NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the prophet | a story of a rich man | David | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent david=Recipient story=Topic | | 2 | **steal** | gerund | a rich man *not said here* | a poor man's lamb | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamb=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | the man | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [King David and King Solomon, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/7/) - next →: [King David and King Solomon, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/)