--- title: On the road to Damascus a bright light blinded Saul and Jesus spoke… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics description: On the road to Damascus a bright light blinded Saul and Jesus spoke to him; he became a follower and was later called Paul. Who acts: bright light, Saul. 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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 (bright light, Saul), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.lesson:10 # text = On the road to Damascus a bright light blinded Saul and Jesus spoke to him; he became a follower and was later called Paul. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.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): R5-strong ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Damascus Damascus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 blinded blind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Saul Saul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 follower follower NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 25 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blind** | past | a bright light | Saul and Jesus | | the road to Damascus | | | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | a bright light *not said here* | | Saul | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | Saul | a follower | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **call** | past · passive | Saul *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×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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