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title: In John's Gospel Mary Magdalene was the first to meet the risen Jesu… — Easter and Pentecost · tree and pragmatics
description: In John's Gospel Mary Magdalene was the first to meet the risen Jesus; she thought he was the gardener until he said her name. Who acts: Mary, 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 
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# Easter and Pentecost, sentence 9

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In John's Gospel Mary Magdalene was the first to meet the risen Jesus; she thought he was the gardener until he said her name.

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**Who acts:** Mary, Jesus · **What happens:** be, meet, rise, think, say, name · **To what, where:** Gospel, risen Jesus, gardener, name · **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 (Mary, 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:9
# text = In John's Gospel Mary Magdalene was the first to meet the risen Jesus; she thought he was the gardener until he said her name.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	Magdalene	Magdalene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | past | Mary |  |  | John's Gospel |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Mary *not said here* | the risen Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Mary |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Jesus | the gardener |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | Mary's name |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 7 | **name** |  | Mary |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:019-easter-and-pentecost.lesson:9`.

**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): no change. **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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