--- title: It begins with the Beatitudes, blessings for people the world often… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics description: It begins with the Beatitudes, blessings for people the world often overlooks: the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart and the peacemakers. Who acts: crowd, world. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, world), 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:2 # text = It begins with the Beatitudes, blessings for people the world often overlooks: the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart and the peacemakers. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Beatitudes beatitude PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 blessings blessing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 overlooks overlook VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 mourn mourn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 meek meek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 merciful merciful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:obl 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 peacemakers peacemaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | crowd | | | | | with the Beatitudes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with beatitude=Subeventuality | | 2 | **overlook** | present | the world | people *not said here* | | | | often *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **mourn** | present | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The Sermon on the Mount, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/1/) - next →: [The Sermon on the Mount, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)