Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 0
A parable is a short story Jesus told about everyday life with a deeper meaning about God and how to live; it makes the listener think and see himself in it.
Who acts: parable, Jesus, listener · What happens: be, tell, live, make, think, see · To what, where: short story, listener, Jesus, parable · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep» 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 (parable, Jesus, listener), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parable | det |
| 2 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 life | amod |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 meaning | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 meaning | det |
| 14 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 meaning | amod |
| 15 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 meaning | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 live | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 live | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 God | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 makes | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 makes | nsubj |
| 24 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 listener | det |
| 26 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makes | obj |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 makes | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 see | cc |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 think | conj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a parable | a short story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jesus | a short story not said here | about everyday life; with a deeper meaning about God | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about life=Topic | |||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | Jesus not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | parable | the listener | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | infinitive | the listener not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | the listener not said here | Jesus | parable | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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:014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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