--- title: Jesus told people not to worry about tomorrow, because God feeds the… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus told people not to worry about tomorrow, because God feeds the birds and clothes the lilies of the field. Who acts: Jesus, God. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [The Sermon on the Mount](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/) / 15 # The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 15 Jesus told people not to worry about tomorrow, because God feeds the birds and clothes the lilies of the field. **Who acts:** Jesus, God · **What happens:** tell, not worry, feed, clothe · **To what, where:** people, birds, lilies · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, God), 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:15 # text = Jesus told people not to worry about tomorrow, because God feeds the birds and clothes the lilies of the field. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 iobj _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 worry worry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 clothes clothe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 lilies lily NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | people | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **worry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | | | | tomorrow | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **feed** | present | God | | the birds | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | | 4 | **clothe** | present | God *not said here* | the lilies of the field | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Patient | 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. **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:15`. **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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [The Sermon on the Mount, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/14/) - next →: [The Sermon on the Mount, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)