--- title: A Roman census took them to Bethlehem; there was no room at the inn,… — The birth of Jesus · tree and pragmatics description: A Roman census took them to Bethlehem; there was no room at the inn, so the baby was laid in a manger, an animal feeding trough, and angels sent shepherds to see him. Who acts: Roman census, room, angels. 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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 (Roman census, room, angels), 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:2 # text = A Roman census took them to Bethlehem; there was no room at the inn, so the baby was laid in a manger, an animal feeding trough, and angels sent shepherds to see him. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Roman roman ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 census census NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Bethlehem Bethlehem PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 laid laid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 manger manger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 feeding feeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 34 shepherds shepherd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:acl 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | a Roman census | them *= they* | Bethlehem | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to bethlehem=Destination | | 2 | **be** | past | no room at the inn | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **laid** | past · passive | | the baby | | a manger | | | tree rules | | 4 | **send** | past | angels | shepherds | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | angels *not said here* | room | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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: [Psalms and Proverbs, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/16/) - next →: [The birth of Jesus, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/)