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title: Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman at a well, whom others avoided,… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman at a well, whom others avoided, and offered her «living water». Who acts: Jesus, others. A sentence of the lesson «Jesus' life and teaching» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 14

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Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman at a well, whom others avoided, and offered her «living water».

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**Who acts:** Jesus, others · **What happens:** talk, avoid, offer · **To what, where:** well, Samaritan woman, living water, woman

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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 (Jesus, others), 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:14
# text = Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman at a well, whom others avoided, and offered her «living water».
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Samaritan	Samaritan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
9	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	living	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **talk** | past | Jesus |  |  | a well |  | with a Samaritan woman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with woman=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **avoid** | past | others | a Samaritan woman |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Location |
| 3 | **offer** | past | Jesus *not said here* | living water | woman |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal water=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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**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 ×1, 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/).

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