The birth of Jesus, sentence 3

Wise men from the East followed a star with gold, frankincense and myrrh, while jealous King Herod tried to kill the child, so the family fled to Egypt as refugees.

Who acts: Wise men, jealous King Herod, family · What happens: follow, try, kill, flee · To what, where: star, child, Egypt

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, jealous King Herod, family), 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	6 followed	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 East	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 East	det
5	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 men	nmod
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 star	det
8	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 star	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frankincense	punct
12	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gold	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 myrrh	cc
14	myrrh	myrrh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frankincense	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tried	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 tried	mark
17	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Herod	amod
18	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Herod	compound
19	Herod	Herod	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tried	nsubj
20	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 kill	mark
22	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kill	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fled	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 fled	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 family	det
28	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fled	nsubj
29	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Egypt	case
31	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 fled	obl
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 refugees	case
33	refugees	refugee	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Wise men from the East	a star		with gold and frankincense and myrrh	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
2	try	past	jealous King Herod				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	jealous King Herod not said here	the child			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	flee	past	the family		Egypt	as refugees	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=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:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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