Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★, sentence 11

Zacchaeus, a tax collector, promised to give half his possessions to the poor and to pay back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:8).

Who acts: Zacchaeus · What happens: promise, give, pay back, cheat, possess · To what, where: possessions, poor, anyone, Luke

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» 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 (Zacchaeus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 promised	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 collector	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 collector	det
4	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collector	compound
5	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Zacchaeus	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 collector	punct
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promised	xcomp
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 possessions	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 possessions	nmod:poss
12	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 give	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 poor	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 poor	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 give	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pay	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pay	mark
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 give	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 pay	advmod
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 times	nummod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 anyone	compound
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 pay	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cheated	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cheated	aux
25	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 anyone	acl:relcl
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 Luke	punct
27	Luke	luke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cheated	obj
28	19:8	19:8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 Luke	flat
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Luke	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 promised	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Zacchaeus			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Zacchaeus not said here	Zacchaeus's possessions	the poor	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Theme to poor=Recipient
3	pay back	to-infinitive	Zacchaeus not said here	anyone		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset
4	cheat	past · perfect	Zacchaeus	Luke		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luke=Source
5	possess		Zacchaeus			nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:religion-ethics:103-olympiad-fair-or-unfair-chains-of-reasons-and-dilemmas.lesson:11.

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, R5-strong ×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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