--- title: Wise men from the East followed a star with gold, frankincense and m… — The birth of Jesus · tree and pragmatics description: Wise men from the East followed a star with gold, frankincense and myrrh, while jealous King Herod tried to kill the child, so the family fled to Egypt as refugees. Who acts: Wise men, jealous King Herod, family. 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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, jealous King Herod, family), 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:3 # text = Wise men from the East followed a star with gold, frankincense and myrrh, while jealous King Herod tried to kill the child, so the family fled to Egypt as refugees. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 frankincense frankincense NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:appos 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 myrrh myrrh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 jealous jealous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Herod Herod PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 refugees refugee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | | | | with gold and frankincense and myrrh | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | | 2 | **try** | past | jealous King Herod | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | jealous King Herod *not said here* | the child | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 4 | **flee** | past | the family | | | Egypt | | as refugees | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial\_Location | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [The birth of Jesus, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/2/) - next →: [The birth of Jesus, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/)