--- title: Wise men (magi) from the East followed a star and brought gold, fran… — The birth of Jesus · tree and pragmatics description: Wise men (magi) from the East followed a star and brought gold, frankincense and myrrh (two sweet-smelling tree gums); the Bible does not say there were three of them, only three gifts. Who acts: Wise men, Bible, three. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wise men, Bible, three), 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:12 # text = Wise men (magi) from the East followed a star and brought gold, frankincense and myrrh (two sweet-smelling tree gums); the Bible does not say there were three of them, only three gifts. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 magi magus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 frankincense frankincense NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 myrrh myrrh NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 21 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 smelling smelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 gums gum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:appos 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Bible Bible PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:expl 34 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:ccomp 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 40 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obl 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | Wise men from the East | a star | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | past | Wise men from the East *not said here* | gold and frankincense and myrrh | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the Bible | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | past | three of men | | | 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](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:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×5, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The birth of Jesus, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/11/) - next →: [The birth of Jesus, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/)