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title: Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before taking the s… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brother's eye. 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 17

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Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brother's eye.

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**Who acts:** Jesus · **What happens:** say, take · **To what, where:** plank, own eye, speck, eye · **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:17
# text = Jesus said to take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brother's eye.
# 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): 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	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	.	.	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 how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | the plank |  | your own eye |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent plank=Theme out eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Jesus *not said here* | the speck |  | your brother's eye |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent speck=Theme out eye=Initial\_Location |

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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): 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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