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title: According to the New Testament, Jesus was brought to Jerusalem soon… — Jerusalem · tree and pragmatics
description: According to the New Testament, Jesus was brought to Jerusalem soon after his birth and later in his life cleansed the Second Temple. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Jerusalem» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Jerusalem, sentence 312

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From Wikipedia, [«Jerusalem»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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According to the New Testament, Jesus was brought to Jerusalem soon after his birth and later in his life cleansed the Second Temple.

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**What happens:** accord, bring, cleanse · **To what, where:** Jesus, Jerusalem, Second Temple, life

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Jerusalem». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Jerusalem:312
# text = According to the New Testament, Jesus was brought to Jerusalem soon after his birth and later in his life cleansed the Second Temple.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Testament	Testament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	cleansed	cleanse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Second	Second	PROPN	NNP	_	24	compound	_	_
24	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | Jesus | Jerusalem |  | after Jerusalem's birth | accord the New Testament; soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to jerusalem=Destination |
| 3 | **cleanse** | past |  | the Second Temple |  | Jerusalem's life |  | late *property* | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=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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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Jerusalem», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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