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title: Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in m… — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in many languages, as the reversal of Babel. Who acts: Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Noah and the Tower of Babel, sentence 19

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Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in many languages, as the reversal of Babel.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** see, understand, reverse · **To what, where:** Pentecost, followers, many languages, Babel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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 (Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.lesson:19
# text = Christians see Pentecost, when Jesus' followers were understood in many languages, as the reversal of Babel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 003-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel.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	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	reversal	reversal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Babel	Babel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **see** | present | Christians | Pentecost |  |  |  | as the reversal of Babel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pentecost=Stimulus as reversal=Attribute |
| 2 | **understand** | past · passive |  | Jesus's followers |  | many languages |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reverse** |  |  | Babel |  |  |  |  | nom reversal «act 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): 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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