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title: Four friends lowered a paralysed man through a roof to Jesus, who fo… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: Four friends lowered a paralysed man through a roof to Jesus, who forgave him and healed him. Who acts: Four friends, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «The miracles of Jesus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The miracles of Jesus, sentence 13

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Four friends lowered a paralysed man through a roof to Jesus, who forgave him and healed him.

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**Who acts:** Four friends, Jesus · **What happens:** lower, paralyse, forgive, heal · **To what, where:** paralysed man, Jesus, roof

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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 (Four friends, 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:13
# text = Four friends lowered a paralysed man through a roof to Jesus, who forgave him and healed him.
# 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 ×1
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lowered	lower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	paralysed	paralyse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forgave	forgive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	healed	heal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **lower** | past | Four friends | a paralysed man | Jesus | a roof |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme through roof=Destination to jesus=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **paralyse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forgive** | past | Jesus | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **heal** | past | Jesus *not said here* | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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. **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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