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title: In baptism a person is washed with or dipped in water «in the name o… — Baptism, communion and confirmation · tree and pragmatics
description: In baptism a person is washed with or dipped in water «in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit»; it is a sign of sin washed away, new life and joining the Church. Who acts: person. A sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» of the religion ethics course 
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# Baptism, communion and confirmation, sentence 1

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In baptism a person is washed with or dipped in water «in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit»; it is a sign of sin washed away, new life and joining the Church.

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**Who acts:** person · **What happens:** wash, dip, be, wash away, join, name · **To what, where:** person, baptism, sign, sin, Church, Father

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Baptism, communion and confirmation» 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 (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.lesson:1
# text = In baptism a person is washed with or dipped in water «in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit»; it is a sign of sin washed away, new life and joining the Church.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 024-baptism-communion-and-confirmation.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	baptism	baptism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dipped	dip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Holy	Holy	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **wash** | present · passive |  | a person |  | baptism |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **dip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit; in water | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | person | a sign and new life |  |  |  | of sin | tree rules |
| 4 | **wash away** | participle |  | sin *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **join** | gerund |  | the Church |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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**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.

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