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title: But the greatest of these is love.» — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: But the greatest of these is love.» Who acts: greatest. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 6

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But the greatest of these is love.»

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**Who acts:** greatest · **What happens:** be

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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 (greatest), 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:6
# text = But the greatest of these is love.»
# 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): no change
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | **is** | present | the greatest |  |  |  |  | of this love | 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:6`.

**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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