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title: David admitted his sin, and Psalm 51 is the prayer of sorrow linked… — King David and King Solomon · tree and pragmatics
description: David admitted his sin, and Psalm 51 is the prayer of sorrow linked with him: «Create in me a clean heart, O God». Who acts: David, Psalm. 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 ever
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# King David and King Solomon, sentence 9

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David admitted his sin, and Psalm 51 is the prayer of sorrow linked with him: «Create in me a clean heart, O God».

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**Who acts:** David, Psalm · **What happens:** admit, be, link, create · **To what, where:** sin, prayer, clean heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Psalm), 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:9
# text = David admitted his sin, and Psalm 51 is the prayer of sorrow linked with him: «Create in me a clean heart, O God».
# 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	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	51	51	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	O	O	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | David | David's sin |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Psalm | the prayer |  |  |  | of sorrow | tree rules |
| 3 | **link** | participle |  | the prayer *not said here* |  |  |  | with David | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with he=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **create** *in a quote* | infinitive | David *not said here* | a clean heart |  |  |  | in David; God *vocative* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Result |

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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:9`.

**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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