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# The Ten Commandments, sentence 7

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The first commandment says to worship only the one true God; Christians believe nothing should take his place, not money, fame or things, and because loving God comes first, it shapes how they keep all the others.

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**Who acts:** first commandment, Christians, nothing, place, Commandments · **What happens:** say, worship, believe, take, loving, come · **To what, where:** one true God, place, God, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Ten Commandments» 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 (first commandment, Christians, nothing, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:007-the-ten-commandments.lesson:7
# text = The first commandment says to worship only the one true God; Christians believe nothing should take his place, not money, fame or things, and because loving God comes first, it shapes how they keep all the others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 007-the-ten-commandments.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	commandment	commandment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:appos
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	loving	loving	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	nsubj	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	advmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	shapes	shape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the first commandment |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **worship** | to-infinitive | the first commandment *not said here* | the one true God |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus |
| 3 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | should | nothing | God's place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **loving** | gerund |  | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shape** | present | place |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
| 8 | **keep** | present | Commandments *= commandment* | all others |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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