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title: For a child today the stories say: bring what you have, help your fr… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today the stories say: bring what you have, help your friends reach help, keep asking when others tell you to be quiet, and remember to say thank you. Who acts: stories, you, friends, others. A sentence of the lesson «The miracles of Jesus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary
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# The miracles of Jesus, sentence 4

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For a child today the stories say: bring what you have, help your friends reach help, keep asking when others tell you to be quiet, and remember to say thank you.

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**Who acts:** stories, you, friends, others · **What happens:** say, bring, have, help, reach, keep · **To what, where:** help, you · **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 (stories, you, friends, others), 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:4
# text = For a child today the stories say: bring what you have, help your friends reach help, keep asking when others tell you to be quiet, and remember to say thank you.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×4
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
18	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | infinitive | your friends | help |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | others |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 9 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 11 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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