--- title: Jesus began his work when John the Baptist baptised him in the river… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus began his work when John the Baptist baptised him in the river Jordan and a voice said «This is my Son, whom I love»; then for forty days in the desert he was tempted and said no each time, answering with Scripture. Who acts: Jesus, John, voice, This. 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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 (Jesus, John, voice, This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:0 # text = Jesus began his work when John the Baptist baptised him in the river Jordan and a voice said «This is my Son, whom I love»; then for forty days in the desert he was tempted and said no each time, answering with Scripture. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 013-jesus-life-and-teaching.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 6 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Baptist baptist NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 baptised baptise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 14 Jordan Jordan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 Son Son PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 tempted tempt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 42 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 44 det _ _ 43 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 44 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 answering answer VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 Scripture scripture PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Jesus | Jesus's work | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 2 | **baptise** | past | John | Jesus | | | | the river *obl* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a voice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | my Son | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | a voice *= voice* | my Son | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | | 6 | **tempt** | past · passive | | voice | | | day | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | with Scripture | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **work** | | Jesus | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/17/) - next →: [Jesus' life and teaching, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/)