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title: Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and o… — Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation · tree and pragmatics
description: Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and other languages so ordinary people could read it themselves. Who acts: Reformers, ordinary people. A sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 12

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Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and other languages so ordinary people could read it themselves.

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**Who acts:** Reformers, ordinary people · **What happens:** translate, read · **To what, where:** Bible, Latin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (Reformers, ordinary people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:12
# text = Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and other languages so ordinary people could read it themselves.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.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): R5-strong ×2
1	Reformers	reformer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:appos
21	.	.	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 | **translate** | past | Reformers | the Bible |  | Latin |  | into German and English and other languages *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent bible=Patient from latin=Initial\_State into german=Result |
| 2 | **read** | could | ordinary people | Bible |  |  |  | people *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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): R5-strong ×2. **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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