Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 1

He called ordinary fishermen — Peter, Andrew, James and John — with «Follow me», and chose twelve apostles as different as a tax collector and a rebel.

Who acts: John · What happens: call, follow, choose · To what, where: ordinary fishermen, John, twelve apostles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» 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 (John), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fishermen	amod
4	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 Peter	punct
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fishermen	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Andrew	punct
8	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Peter	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 James	punct
10	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Peter	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 John	cc
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Peter	conj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	16 Follow	mark
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
16	Follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Follow	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chose	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 chose	cc
21	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 apostles	nummod
23	apostles	apostle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 chose	obj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 different	advmod
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chose	ccomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 collector	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 collector	det
28	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 collector	compound
29	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 different	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rebel	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rebel	det
32	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 collector	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	John	ordinary fishermen	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient
2	follow in a quote	infinitive	John not said here	John	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	choose	past	John not said here	twelve apostles	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostle=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:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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