--- title: Jesus says his followers are salt and light: they should make the wo… — The Sermon on the Mount · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus says his followers are salt and light: they should make the world better and let their good deeds be seen, not for their own praise but so that people give glory to God. Who acts: Jesus, followers, good deeds, people. 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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 (Jesus, followers, good deeds, people), 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:4 # text = Jesus says his followers are salt and light: they should make the world better and let their good deeds be seen, not for their own praise but so that people give glory to God. # 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 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 deeds deed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 glory glory NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Jesus's followers | salt and light | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | should | followers *= follower* | the world | | | | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset world=Product | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | followers *= follower* *not said here* | followers's good deeds | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | infinitive · passive | followers's good deeds *not said here* | | | | | for followers's own praise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **give** | present | people | glory | God | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent glory=Theme to god=Recipient | | 7 | **praise** | | followers *= follower* | | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:4`. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/3/) - next →: [The Sermon on the Mount, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/17-the-sermon-on-the-mount/)