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description: The Holy Spirit is God with people here and now, giving comfort, courage and guidance; the Bible and the short creeds said in church gather these beliefs together. Who acts: Holy Spirit, short creeds, Bible. A sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» of the re
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# What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, sentence 4

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The Holy Spirit is God with people here and now, giving comfort, courage and guidance; the Bible and the short creeds said in church gather these beliefs together.

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**Who acts:** Holy Spirit, short creeds, Bible · **What happens:** be, give, say, gather · **To what, where:** God, comfort, church, beliefs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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 (Holy Spirit, short creeds, Bible), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.lesson:4
# text = The Holy Spirit is God with people here and now, giving comfort, courage and guidance; the Bible and the short creeds said in church gather these beliefs together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 021-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	creeds	creed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	gather	gather	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 a** | present | the Holy Spirit | God |  |  |  | with people | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the Holy Spirit *not said here* | comfort and courage and guidance |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the short creeds *not said here* |  |  | church |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in church=Manner |
| 4 | **gather** | present | the Bible and the short creeds | this beliefs |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

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