The birth of Jesus, sentence 8
Mary and Joseph travelled to Bethlehem for a Roman census, a count of all the people, and there was no room for them at the inn.
Who acts: Mary, room · What happens: travel, be · To what, where: Bethlehem
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 (Mary, room), 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 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Joseph | cc |
| 3 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mary | conj |
| 4 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Bethlehem | case |
| 6 | Bethlehem | Bethlehem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 census | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 census | det |
| 9 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 census | amod |
| 10 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travelled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 count | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 count | det |
| 13 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 census | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 count | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelled | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 room | det |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 room | nmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 inn | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 inn | det |
| 28 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Mary and Joseph | Bethlehem | for a Roman census | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bethlehem=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | no room for people at the inn | 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:8.
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 ×1, 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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