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title: His most famous words are about love: love is patient and kind, not… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: His most famous words are about love: love is patient and kind, not jealous, boastful, proud or rude, and without love even great gifts and cleverness are nothing. Who acts: love, famous words, Paul. A sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the way of love» of the religion ethics course of Mo
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 4

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His most famous words are about love: love is patient and kind, not jealous, boastful, proud or rude, and without love even great gifts and cleverness are nothing.

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**Who acts:** love, famous words, Paul · **What happens:** be, not be, word · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (love, famous words, 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:4
# text = His most famous words are about love: love is patient and kind, not jealous, boastful, proud or rude, and without love even great gifts and cleverness are nothing.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about love | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | love |  |  |  |  | patient *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **be** |  | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | love *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present | Paul's famous words | nothing |  |  |  | without love | tree rules |
| 9 | **word** |  | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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:020-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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