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title: Jesus lived in the Roman province of Judea and was crucified by the… — Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christia… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus lived in the Roman province of Judea and was crucified by the Romans, and his followers spread his teaching through the empire; Christians were sometimes persecuted, but the faith kept growing. Who acts: Jesus, Romans, followers, faith. A sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, L
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# Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity, sentence 21

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Jesus lived in the Roman province of Judea and was crucified by the Romans, and his followers spread his teaching through the empire; Christians were sometimes persecuted, but the faith kept growing.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, Romans, followers, faith · **What happens:** live, crucify, spread, persecute, keep, grow · **To what, where:** Roman province, teaching, empire, Christians

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity» of the history 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, Romans, followers, faith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson:21
# text = Jesus lived in the Roman province of Judea and was crucified by the Romans, and his followers spread his teaching through the empire; Christians were sometimes persecuted, but the faith kept growing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 015-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
6	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Judea	Judea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	crucified	crucify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
26	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	persecuted	persecute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Jesus |  |  | the Roman province of Judea |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in province=Location |
| 2 | **crucify** | past · passive | the Romans |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread** | past | Jesus's followers | Jesus's teaching |  | the empire |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent teaching=Theme through empire=Destination |
| 4 | **persecute** | past · passive |  | Christians |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **keep** | past | the faith |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | the faith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **teach** |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R1-cc-next ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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