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title: Paul travelled across the Roman world starting churches, and was shi… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: Paul travelled across the Roman world starting churches, and was shipwrecked, beaten and put in prison, yet he kept going. Who acts: Paul. A sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the way of love» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 2

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Paul travelled across the Roman world starting churches, and was shipwrecked, beaten and put in prison, yet he kept going.

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**Who acts:** Paul · **What happens:** travel, start, shipwreck, beat, put, keep · **To what, where:** Roman world, churches, prison

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the way of love» 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 (Paul), 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:2
# text = Paul travelled across the Roman world starting churches, and was shipwrecked, beaten and put in prison, yet he kept going.
# 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound
7	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **travel** | past | Paul | the Roman world |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | gerund | Paul *not said here* | churches |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shipwreck** | past · passive | Paul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **beat** | participle | Paul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | participle | Paul *not said here* |  |  | prison |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in prison=Destination |
| 6 | **keep** | past | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | gerund | Paul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×5, 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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