--- title: The first Christians shared what they had, ate together, prayed and… — Easter and Pentecost · tree and pragmatics description: The first Christians shared what they had, ate together, prayed and cared for the poor, and the small group grew into a worldwide church. Who acts: first Christians, Christians, small group. 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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 (first Christians, Christians, small group), 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:4 # text = The first Christians shared what they had, ate together, prayed and cared for the poor, and the small group grew into a worldwide church. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 worldwide worldwide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | past | the first Christians | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | Christians *= christian* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **eat** | past | the first Christians *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pray** | past | the first Christians *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **care** | past | the first Christians *not said here* | | | | | for the poor | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for poor=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | past | the small group | | | | | into a worldwide church *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into church=Result | 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:019-easter-and-pentecost.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Easter and Pentecost, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/19-easter-and-pentecost/2/) - next →: [Easter and Pentecost, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/19-easter-and-pentecost/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/19-easter-and-pentecost/)