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title: Baptist churches baptise believers by full immersion and let each co… — Churches of the English-speaking world I · tree and pragmatics
description: Baptist churches baptise believers by full immersion and let each congregation govern itself. Who acts: Baptist churches, congregation. 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 pragmati
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# Churches of the English-speaking world I, sentence 18

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Baptist churches baptise believers by full immersion and let each congregation govern itself.

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**Who acts:** Baptist churches, congregation · **What happens:** baptise, let, govern · **To what, where:** believers, congregation

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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 (Baptist churches, congregation), 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:18
# text = Baptist churches baptise believers by full immersion and let each congregation govern itself.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Baptist	baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	baptise	baptise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	believers	believer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	immersion	immersion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	congregation	congregation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	govern	govern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **baptise** | present | Baptist churches | believers |  |  |  | by full immersion | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | Baptist churches *not said here* | each congregation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **govern** | infinitive | each congregation *not said here* | congregation |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=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): 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/).

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