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title: Jesus said, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you». — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus said, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you». Who acts: Jesus. 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 every clause.
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# The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 10

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Jesus said, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you».

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**Who acts:** Jesus · **What happens:** say, love, pray, persecute · **To what, where:** enemies, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:10
# text = Jesus said, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you».
# 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 ×1
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Love	love	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	persecute	persecute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **love** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your enemies |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for those | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for that=Theme |
| 4 | **persecute** *in a quote* | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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