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title: Saul hunted down the first Christians and approved the killing of St… — Paul, his letters and the way of love · tree and pragmatics
description: Saul hunted down the first Christians and approved the killing of Stephen. Who acts: Saul. 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 9

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Saul hunted down the first Christians and approved the killing of Stephen.

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**Who acts:** Saul · **What happens:** hunt down, approve, kill · **To what, where:** first Christians, killing, Stephen

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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 (Saul), 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:9
# text = Saul hunted down the first Christians and approved the killing of Stephen.
# 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
1	Saul	Saul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	approved	approve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	killing	killing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Stephen	Stephen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hunt down** | past | Saul | the first Christians |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christian=Theme |
| 2 | **approve** | past | Saul *not said here* | the killing of Stephen |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent killing=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **kill** |  |  | Stephen |  |  |  |  | nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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