--- title: Christians believe loving your enemy means wanting good for them; it… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics description: Christians believe loving your enemy means wanting good for them; it does not mean letting them keep hurting you. Who acts: Christians, loving, speck. 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 --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # The Sermon on the Mount, sentence 18 Christians believe loving your enemy means wanting good for them; it does not mean letting them keep hurting you. **Who acts:** Christians, loving, speck · **What happens:** believe, love, mean, want, not mean, let · **To what, where:** enemy, Christians, you · **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 (Christians, loving, speck), 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:18 # text = Christians believe loving your enemy means wanting good for them; it does not mean letting them keep hurting 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 loving love VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 ccomp _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 16 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 ccomp _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 . . 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 | **believe** | present | Christians | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **love** | gerund | | your enemy | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enemy=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | loving | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **want** | gerund | | | | | | for Christians *= christian*; good *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | speck | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **let** | gerund | | Christians *= christian* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **hurt** | gerund | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:18`. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/17/) - next →: [The Last Supper and the crucifixion, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/18-the-last-supper-and-the-crucifixion/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)