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title: John's Gospel calls Jesus' miracles «signs», because they point to w… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: John's Gospel calls Jesus' miracles «signs», because they point to who Jesus is. Who acts: Gospel, miracles, 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 7

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John's Gospel calls Jesus' miracles «signs», because they point to who Jesus is.

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**Who acts:** Gospel, miracles, 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 (Gospel, miracles, 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:7
# text = John's Gospel calls Jesus' miracles «signs», because they point to who Jesus is.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	miracles	miracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obl	_	_
17	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **call** | present | John's Gospel | Jesus's miracles and signs |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent miracle=Recipient |
| 2 | **point** | present | miracles *= miracle* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | 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): R6-punct-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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