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title: The Methodist Church was started by John and Charles Wesley in the 1… — Churches of the English-speaking world I · tree and pragmatics
description: The Methodist Church was started by John and Charles Wesley in the 1700s; Charles wrote thousands of hymns. Who acts: John, Charles. A sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Churches of the English-speaking world I, sentence 17

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The Methodist Church was started by John and Charles Wesley in the 1700s; Charles wrote thousands of hymns.

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**Who acts:** John, Charles · **What happens:** start, write · **To what, where:** Methodist Church, 1700s, thousands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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, Charles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.lesson:17
# text = The Methodist Church was started by John and Charles Wesley in the 1700s; Charles wrote thousands of hymns.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 028-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i.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	3	det	_	_
2	Methodist	Methodist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	Wesley	Wesley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	1700s	1700	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **start** | past · passive | John and Charles | the Methodist Church |  | the 1700s |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **write** | past | Charles | thousands of hymns |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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): 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.

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