--- title: Martha was busy serving while her sister Mary sat listening to Jesus… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics description: Martha was busy serving while her sister Mary sat listening to Jesus, and Jesus said Mary had chosen the better part. Who acts: Martha, sister, Jesus, Mary. 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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 (Martha, sister, Jesus, Mary), 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:12 # text = Martha was busy serving while her sister Mary sat listening to Jesus, and Jesus said Mary had chosen the better part. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Martha Martha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 serving serve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 9 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 17 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Martha | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **serve** | gerund | Martha *not said here* | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit** | past | Martha's sister | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **listen** | gerund | Martha's sister *not said here* | | Jesus | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to jesus=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **choose** | past · perfect | Mary | the better part | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | 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:12`. **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 ×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: [Jesus' life and teaching, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/11/) - next →: [Jesus' life and teaching, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/)