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title: In Matthew's Gospel, chapters 5 to 7, Jesus sits on a hillside and t… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics
description: In Matthew's Gospel, chapters 5 to 7, Jesus sits on a hillside and teaches a crowd what life in God's kingdom looks like. Who acts: Jesus, life. A sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 0

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In Matthew's Gospel, chapters 5 to 7, Jesus sits on a hillside and teaches a crowd what life in God's kingdom looks like.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, life · **What happens:** sit, teach, look · **To what, where:** Gospel, crowd

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» 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, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.lesson:0
# text = In Matthew's Gospel, chapters 5 to 7, Jesus sits on a hillside and teaches a crowd what life in God's kingdom looks like.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Matthew	matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
6	chapters	chapter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nmod	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **sit** | present | Jesus |  |  | Matthew's Gospel |  | on a hillside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gospel=Location |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Jesus *not said here* | a crowd |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crowd=Recipient |
| 3 | **look** | present | life in God's kingdom |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:017-the-sermon-on-the-mount.lesson:0`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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