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title: Asked for the greatest commandment, he said: love God with all your… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: Asked for the greatest commandment, he said: love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbour as yourself. 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 and the pragmatics of eve
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# Jesus' life and teaching, sentence 2

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Asked for the greatest commandment, he said: love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbour as yourself.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** ask, say, love · **To what, where:** God, neighbour · **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:2
# text = Asked for the greatest commandment, he said: love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbour as yourself.
# 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 ×2
1	Asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	love	love	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	love	love	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the greatest commandment | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **love** | infinitive |  | God |  |  |  | with your heart and soul and mind | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 4 | **love** | infinitive |  | your neighbour |  |  |  | as yourself | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |

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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:2`.

**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 ×2. **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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