The birth of Jesus, sentence 12
Wise men (magi) from the East followed a star and brought gold, frankincense and myrrh (two sweet-smelling tree gums); the Bible does not say there were three of them, only three gifts.
Who acts: Wise men, Bible, three · What happens: follow, bring, not say, be · To what, where: star, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wise men, Bible, three), 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 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 magi | punct |
| 4 | magi | magus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 magi | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 men | nmod |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 star | det |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 followed | conj |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frankincense | punct |
| 16 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 myrrh | cc |
| 18 | myrrh | myrrh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | conj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 gums | punct |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 gums | nummod |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 smelling | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sweet | punct |
| 23 | smelling | smelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gums | compound |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gums | compound |
| 25 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gold | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 gums | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 say | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Bible | det |
| 29 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 say | nsubj |
| 30 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 say | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 say | advmod |
| 32 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 followed | parataxis |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 were | expl |
| 34 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 say | ccomp |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 were | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 three | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 gifts | punct |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 gifts | advmod |
| 40 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 gifts | nummod |
| 41 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 three | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Wise men from the East | a star | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Wise men from the East not said here | gold and frankincense and myrrh | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | the Bible | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | three of men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×5, 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.
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