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title: Christians call these miracles, and John's Gospel calls them «signs»… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians call these miracles, and John's Gospel calls them «signs», because they point beyond themselves to who Jesus is and to God's care for people. Who acts: Christians, Gospel, Gospels, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «The miracles of Jesus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary scho
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# The miracles of Jesus, sentence 1

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Christians call these miracles, and John's Gospel calls them «signs», because they point beyond themselves to who Jesus is and to God's care for people.

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**Who acts:** Christians, Gospel, Gospels, Jesus · **What happens:** call, point, be · **To what, where:** miracles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The miracles of Jesus» 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 (Christians, Gospel, Gospels, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:016-the-miracles-of-jesus.lesson:1
# text = Christians call these miracles, and John's Gospel calls them «signs», because they point beyond themselves to who Jesus is and to God's care for people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 016-the-miracles-of-jesus.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	miracles	miracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obl	_	_
23	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Christians | this miracles |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent miracle=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | present | John's Gospel | miracles *= miracle* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **point** | present | Gospels *= gospel* |  |  |  |  | beyond Gospels *= gospel* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to who=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | Jesus |  |  |  |  | to God's care; for people | tree rules |

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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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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