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title: Pontius Pilate found no fault in him but gave in to the crowd, and J… — The Last Supper and the crucifixion · tree and pragmatics
description: Pontius Pilate found no fault in him but gave in to the crowd, and Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, praying, «Father, forgive them». Who acts: Pontius. 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 an
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# The Last Supper and the crucifixion, sentence 3

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Pontius Pilate found no fault in him but gave in to the crowd, and Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, praying, «Father, forgive them».

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**Who acts:** Pontius · **What happens:** find, give in, crucify, praying, forgive · **To what, where:** fault, Jesus, bread · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pontius), 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:3
# text = Pontius Pilate found no fault in him but gave in to the crowd, and Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, praying, «Father, forgive them».
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pontius	Pontius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Pilate	Pilate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	crucified	crucify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	praying	praying	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	vocative	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Pontius | no fault |  |  |  | in Jesus | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 2 | **give in** | past | Pontius *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the crowd | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to crowd=Theme |
| 3 | **crucify** | past · passive |  | Jesus |  |  | friday |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **praying** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forgive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | bread |  |  |  | Father *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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