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title: Riding a donkey, not a war horse, showed Jesus as a humble king of p… — The Last Supper and the crucifixion · tree and pragmatics
description: Riding a donkey, not a war horse, showed Jesus as a humble king of peace. Who acts: Riding. 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 every clause.
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# The Last Supper and the crucifixion, sentence 7

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Riding a donkey, not a war horse, showed Jesus as a humble king of peace.

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**Who acts:** Riding · **What happens:** ride, show · **To what, where:** donkey, Jesus · **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 (Riding), 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:7
# text = Riding a donkey, not a war horse, showed Jesus as a humble king of peace.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | gerund |  | a donkey |  |  |  | a war horse *obl* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | past | Riding |  | Jesus |  |  | as a humble king of peace | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jesus=Recipient |

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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:7`.

**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): 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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