Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 13
The elder brother, who had stayed at home, was angry that the father celebrated; the father told him «everything I have is yours» and that they had to celebrate because his brother was lost and is found.
Who acts: elder brother, father, everything, priest · What happens: stay, be, celebrate, tell, have, lose · To what, where: home, brother · 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 (elder brother, father, everything, priest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stayed | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stayed | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stayed | aux |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 brother | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stayed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | cop |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 celebrated | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrated | nsubj |
| 16 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angry | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 yours | punct |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 yours | nsubj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 everything | acl:relcl |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 yours | cop |
| 27 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 told | ccomp |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 yours | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 had | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 yours | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 celebrate | mark |
| 34 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 39 lost | mark |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 lost | aux:pass |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 celebrate | advcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 found | cc |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 found | aux:pass |
| 42 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 lost | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · perfect | the elder brother | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the elder brother | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | past | the father | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the father | brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the father = father | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | everything | brother | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | past | priest | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | celebrate | to-infinitive | priest not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | lose | past · passive | father's brother | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | find | present · passive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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:13.
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 ×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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