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title: At a wedding in Cana Jesus turned water into wine when the wine ran… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics
description: At a wedding in Cana Jesus turned water into wine when the wine ran out; John calls it his first sign. Who acts: Jesus, wine, John. 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 8

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At a wedding in Cana Jesus turned water into wine when the wine ran out; John calls it his first sign.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, wine, John · **What happens:** turn, run out, call, sign · **To what, where:** water, wedding, wine · **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 (Jesus, wine, John), 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:8
# text = At a wedding in Cana Jesus turned water into wine when the wine ran out; John calls it his first sign.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Cana	Cana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
17	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **turn** | past | Jesus | water |  | a wedding in Cana |  | into wine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme at wedding=Source into wine=Trajectory |
| 2 | **run out** | past | the wine |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | John | wine |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **sign** |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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