The birth of Jesus, sentence 16

When Jesus was twelve he stayed behind in the Temple in Jerusalem asking and answering questions, and his parents searched for him for three days.

Who acts: Jesus, parents · What happens: be, stay, ask, answer, search · To what, where: twelve, Temple, questions

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 (Jesus, parents), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 twelve	mark
2	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 twelve	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twelve	cop
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 stayed	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Temple	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Temple	det
10	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Jerusalem	case
12	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Temple	nmod
13	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stayed	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answering	cc
15	answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 asking	conj
16	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 answering	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 searched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 searched	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 parents	nmod:poss
20	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 searched	nsubj
21	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stayed	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 searched	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 searched	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Jesus	twelve				tree rules
2	stay	past	Jesus		the Temple in Jerusalem		behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	Jesus not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	gerund	Jesus not said here	questions				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
5	search	past	Jesus's parents			day	for Jesus	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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:16.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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