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title: Mary said yes to God: «Let it be to me according to your word». — The birth of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: Mary said yes to God: «Let it be to me according to your word». Who acts: Mary, Annunciation, your. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The birth of Jesus, sentence 6

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Mary said yes to God: «Let it be to me according to your word».

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**Who acts:** Mary, Annunciation, your · **What happens:** say, let, be, word · **To what, where:** God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mary, Annunciation, your), 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:6
# text = Mary said yes to God: «Let it be to me according to your word».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
13	according	accord	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: agree
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=agree, voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mary |  | God |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | accord your word | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | Annunciation |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **word** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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