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title: The sermon is a talk by the minister explaining a Bible passage and… — Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer · tree and pragmatics
description: The sermon is a talk by the minister explaining a Bible passage and how to live it. Who acts: sermon, talk. 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 of every clause.
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# Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer, sentence 8

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The sermon is a talk by the minister explaining a Bible passage and how to live it.

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**Who acts:** sermon, talk · **What happens:** be, explain, live · **To what, where:** talk, Bible passage, sermon

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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 (sermon, talk), 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:8
# text = The sermon is a talk by the minister explaining a Bible passage and how to live it.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sermon	sermon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	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 sermon | a talk |  |  |  | by the minister | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | a talk *not said here* | a Bible passage |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Topic |
| 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | a talk *not said here* | sermon |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |

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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:023-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer.lesson:8`.

**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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