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title: In the Great Commission Jesus told his followers to go to all nation… — Easter and Pentecost · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Great Commission Jesus told his followers to go to all nations, make disciples and baptise them. Who acts: Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Easter and Pentecost» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Easter and Pentecost, sentence 14

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In the Great Commission Jesus told his followers to go to all nations, make disciples and baptise them.

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**Who acts:** Jesus · **What happens:** tell, go, make, baptise · **To what, where:** followers, Great Commission, nations, disciples · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Easter and Pentecost» 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 (Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:019-easter-and-pentecost.lesson:14
# text = In the Great Commission Jesus told his followers to go to all nations, make disciples and baptise them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 019-easter-and-pentecost.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	Commission	commission	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	baptise	baptise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  | Jesus's followers | the Great Commission |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* |  |  | all nations |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to nation=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | disciples |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disciple=Product |
| 4 | **baptise** | infinitive | Jesus *not said here* | disciples *= disciple* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): 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.

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