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title: Jesus said, «Do not store up treasure on earth, where moth and rust… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus said, «Do not store up treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy», and, «Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also». Who acts: Jesus, moth, treasure, heart. A sentence of the lesson «The Sermon on the Mount» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 16

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Jesus said, «Do not store up treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy», and, «Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also».

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**Who acts:** Jesus, moth, treasure, heart, your · **What happens:** say, not store up, destroy, be, treasure · **To what, where:** treasure, earth · **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, moth, treasure, heart), 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:16
# text = Jesus said, «Do not store up treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy», and, «Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also».
# 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): R2-punct-next ×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	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	store	store	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advcl	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
33	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **not** **store up** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | treasure |  | earth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme on earth=Location |
| 3 | **destroy** *in a quote* | infinitive | moth and rust |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your treasure |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | future | your heart |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **treasure** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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. **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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