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title: He wrote letters to the churches — to the Romans, the Corinthians, t… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: He wrote letters to the churches — to the Romans, the Corinthians, the Galatians and more — and they are now part of the New Testament. Who acts: Paul, churches. 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 dependenc
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 3

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He wrote letters to the churches — to the Romans, the Corinthians, the Galatians and more — and they are now part of the New Testament.

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**Who acts:** Paul, churches · **What happens:** write, be · **To what, where:** letters, churches, part

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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, churches), 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:3
# text = He wrote letters to the churches — to the Romans, the Corinthians, the Galatians and more — and they are now part of the New Testament.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Corinthians	Corinthian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Galatians	Galatian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Testament	testament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **write** | past | Paul | letters | the churches |  |  | to the Romans and the Corinthians and the Galatians | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to church=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | churches *= church* | part |  |  | now | of the New Testament | 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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**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:3`.

**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, 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/).

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