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title: Paul taught that the Church is like a body where every part is neede… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: Paul taught that the Church is like a body where every part is needed, that all are one in Christ — neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female — and that the Spirit grows good character like fruit. Who acts: Paul, Church, all, Spirit. A sentence of the lesson «Paul, his letters and the w
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# Paul, his letters and the way of love, sentence 7

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Paul taught that the Church is like a body where every part is needed, that all are one in Christ — neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female — and that the Spirit grows good character like fruit.

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**Who acts:** Paul, Church, all, Spirit · **What happens:** teach, be, need, grow · **To what, where:** part, one, Christ, good character · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Church, all, Spirit), 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:7
# text = Paul taught that the Church is like a body where every part is needed, that all are one in Christ — neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female — and that the Spirit grows good character like fruit.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc:preconj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg
24	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	34	cc	_	_
34	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Paul |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Church |  |  |  |  | like a body | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present · passive |  | every part |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | all | one |  | Christ |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | present | the Spirit | good character |  |  |  | like fruit | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location character=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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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