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title: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate found no fault in Jesus but let th… — The Last Supper and the crucifixion · tree and pragmatics
description: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate found no fault in Jesus but let the crowd have him crucified. Who acts: Roman governor, crowd, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «The Last Supper and the crucifixion» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Last Supper and the crucifixion, sentence 15

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The Roman governor Pontius Pilate found no fault in Jesus but let the crowd have him crucified.

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**Who acts:** Roman governor, crowd, Jesus · **What happens:** find, let, have, crucify · **To what, where:** fault, Jesus

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Last Supper and the crucifixion» 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 (Roman governor, crowd, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:018-the-last-supper-and-the-crucifixion.lesson:15
# text = The Roman governor Pontius Pilate found no fault in Jesus but let the crowd have him crucified.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 018-the-last-supper-and-the-crucifixion.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
3	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Pontius	Pontius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Pilate	Pilate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
12	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	crucified	crucify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the Roman governor | no fault |  | Jesus |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | the Roman governor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | the crowd | Jesus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crucify** | participle | Jesus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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:018-the-last-supper-and-the-crucifixion.lesson:15`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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