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title: Shepherds were ordinary, often looked-down-on workers, and Christian… — The birth of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: Shepherds were ordinary, often looked-down-on workers, and Christians note that the good news came to them first. Who acts: Shepherds, Christians, good news. A sentence of the lesson «The birth of Jesus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The birth of Jesus, sentence 11

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Shepherds were ordinary, often looked-down-on workers, and Christians note that the good news came to them first.

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**Who acts:** Shepherds, Christians, good news · **What happens:** be, look, note, come · **To what, where:** Christians

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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 (Shepherds, Christians, good news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:012-the-birth-of-jesus.lesson:11
# text = Shepherds were ordinary, often looked-down-on workers, and Christians note that the good news came to them first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 012-the-birth-of-jesus.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): no change
1	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	note	note	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | past | Shepherds |  |  |  |  | ordinary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | down, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **note** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past | the good news |  | Christians *= christian* |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:11`.

**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.

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

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