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title: Christians pray for people killed in accidents and war and for their… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians pray for people killed in accidents and war and for their families; many churches help refugees, remembering that Jesus said «I was a stranger and you welcomed me», and people of all faiths and none work for peace. Who acts: Christians, many churches, Jesus, you. A sentence of the lesson 
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# Accidents, wars and deaths on the news, sentence 4

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Christians pray for people killed in accidents and war and for their families; many churches help refugees, remembering that Jesus said «I was a stranger and you welcomed me», and people of all faiths and none work for peace.

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**Who acts:** Christians, many churches, Jesus, you, people · **What happens:** pray, kill, help, remember, say, be · **To what, where:** people, accidents, refugees, stranger, Jesus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» 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, many churches, Jesus, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:4
# text = Christians pray for people killed in accidents and war and for their families; many churches help refugees, remembering that Jesus said «I was a stranger and you welcomed me», and people of all faiths and none work for peace.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	refugees	refugee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	faiths	faith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=39:cc
41	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	39	conj	_	_
42	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pray** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  | for people | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for people=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  | accidents and war and people's families and people of all faiths |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **help** | present | many churches | refugees |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refugee=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **remember** | gerund | many churches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Jesus | a stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **welcome** *in a quote* | past | you | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 8 | **work** | present | people of all faiths *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for peace | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for peace=Beneficiary |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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