--- title: «Amazing Grace» was written by John Newton, a former slave-ship capt… — Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer · tree and pragmatics description: «Amazing Grace» was written by John Newton, a former slave-ship captain who changed his life. Who acts: John, former ship captain. A sentence of the lesson «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's P…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/) / 10 # Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer, sentence 10 «Amazing Grace» was written by John Newton, a former slave-ship captain who changed his life. **Who acts:** John, former ship captain · **What happens:** write, change · **To what, where:** Amazing Grace, life This is a sentence of the lesson «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» 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 (John, former ship captain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.lesson:10 # text = «Amazing Grace» was written by John Newton, a former slave-ship captain who changed his life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 9 Newton Newton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past · passive | John | Amazing Grace | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **change** | past | a former ship captain | Grace's life | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | 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. **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:023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.lesson:10`. **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): R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's P…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/8/) - next →: [Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's P…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/)