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title: He called ordinary fishermen — Peter, Andrew, James and John — with… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: He called ordinary fishermen — Peter, Andrew, James and John — with «Follow me», and chose twelve apostles as different as a tax collector and a rebel. Who acts: John. A sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 1

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He called ordinary fishermen — Peter, Andrew, James and John — with «Follow me», and chose twelve apostles as different as a tax collector and a rebel.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** call, follow, choose · **To what, where:** ordinary fishermen, John, twelve apostles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» 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 (John), 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:1
# text = He called ordinary fishermen — Peter, Andrew, James and John — with «Follow me», and chose twelve apostles as different as a tax collector and a rebel.
# 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): no change
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	apostles	apostle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | John | ordinary fishermen |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient |
| 2 | **follow** *in a quote* | infinitive | John *not said here* | John |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | past | John *not said here* | twelve apostles |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostle=Theme |

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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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**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:1`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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