The birth of Jesus, sentence 2

A Roman census took them to Bethlehem; there was no room at the inn, so the baby was laid in a manger, an animal feeding trough, and angels sent shepherds to see him.

Who acts: Roman census, room, angels · What happens: take, be, laid, send, see · To what, where: them, Bethlehem, baby, manger, shepherds, room

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 (Roman census, room, angels), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 census	det
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 census	amod
3	census	census	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Bethlehem	case
7	Bethlehem	Bethlehem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 inn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 inn	det
15	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 laid	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 baby	det
19	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laid	aux:pass
21	laid	laid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 was	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 manger	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 manger	det
24	manger	manger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laid	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trough	punct
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 trough	det
27	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feeding	compound
28	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trough	compound
29	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 manger	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sent	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 angels	cc
32	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sent	nsubj
33	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laid	conj
34	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sent	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sent	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 see	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	a Roman census	them = they	Bethlehem		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bethlehem=Destination
2	be	past	no room at the inn			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laid	past · passive		the baby		a manger	tree rules
4	send	past	angels	shepherds			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	angels not said here	room			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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:2.

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, R6-punct-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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