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title: The Bible shows broken trust that was mended: Peter denied Jesus thr… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bible shows broken trust that was mended: Peter denied Jesus three times, wept, and was given new work by Jesus, "Feed my sheep" (John 21:15-17), and Jacob and Esau made peace after twenty years. Who acts: Bible, Peter, Jesus, Jacob. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to 
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 3

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The Bible shows broken trust that was mended: Peter denied Jesus three times, wept, and was given new work by Jesus, "Feed my sheep" (John 21:15-17), and Jacob and Esau made peace after twenty years.

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**Who acts:** Bible, Peter, Jesus, Jacob · **What happens:** show, break, mend, deny, weep, give · **To what, where:** broken trust, Jesus, new work, sheep, peace

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (Bible, Peter, Jesus, Jacob), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:3
# text = The Bible shows broken trust that was mended: Peter denied Jesus three times, wept, and was given new work by Jesus, "Feed my sheep" (John 21:15-17), and Jacob and Esau made peace after twenty years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	denied	deny	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
33	21:15-17	21:15-17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the Bible | broken trust |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trust=Recipient |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mend** | past · passive |  | broken trust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deny** | past | Peter | Jesus |  |  | time |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent jesus=Eventuality |
| 5 | **weep** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | past · passive | Jesus | new work |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 7 | **feed** *in a quote* | infinitive | Peter *not said here* |  | my sheep |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient |
| 8 | **make** | past | Jacob and Esau | peace |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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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