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title: In the Bible, Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus, so Christians see c… — Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Bible, Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus, so Christians see crying as part of love. Who acts: Jesus, Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb, sentence 13

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In the Bible, Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus, so Christians see crying as part of love.

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**Who acts:** Jesus, Christians · **What happens:** weep, see, cry

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief: crying, not crying and feeling numb» 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 (Jesus, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.lesson:13
# text = In the Bible, Jesus wept for his friend Lazarus, so Christians see crying as part of love.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 066-grief-crying-not-crying-and-feeling-numb.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	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Lazarus	Lazarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **weep** | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | for Jesus's friend; in the Bible | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in bible=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Christians *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as part of love | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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