The birth of Jesus, sentence 11
Shepherds were ordinary, often looked-down-on workers, and Christians note that the good news came to them first.
Who acts: Shepherds, Christians, good news · What happens: be, look, note, come · To what, where: Christians
This is a sentence of the lesson «The birth of Jesus» 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 (Shepherds, Christians, good news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordinary | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordinary | cop |
| 3 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 workers | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 down | punct |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 down | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 workers | case |
| 11 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordinary | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 note | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 note | cc |
| 14 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 note | nsubj |
| 15 | note | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordinary | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 news | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 news | amod |
| 19 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 note | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 came | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordinary | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Shepherds | ordinary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | participle | down, often property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | note | present | Christians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the good news | Christians = christian | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location |
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, 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:012-the-birth-of-jesus.lesson:11.
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.
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