Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 3
In the Prodigal Son a younger son wastes his share of his father's money and comes home ashamed; the father runs to welcome him, while the elder brother sulks at the party.
Who acts: younger son, father, elder brother, Son · What happens: waste, come, run, welcome, sulk, share · To what, where: share, father, party, money
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 (younger son, father, elder brother, Son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Son | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Son | det |
| 3 | Prodigal | Prodigal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Son | compound |
| 4 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wastes | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wastes | nsubj |
| 8 | wastes | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 share | nmod:poss |
| 10 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wastes | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 money | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 share | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comes | cc |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wastes | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 comes | advmod |
| 19 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 comes | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 runs | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 father | det |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 runs | nsubj |
| 23 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wastes | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 welcome | mark |
| 25 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 runs | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 welcome | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sulks | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 sulks | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 brother | det |
| 30 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brother | amod |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sulks | nsubj |
| 32 | sulks | sulk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 runs | advcl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 party | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 party | det |
| 35 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sulks | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wastes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | present | a younger son | Son's share of Son's father's money | in the Prodigal Son | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | present | a younger son not said here | ashamed, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | present | the father | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | welcome | to-infinitive | the father not said here | father | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sulk | present | the elder brother | the party | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | share | Son | Son's father's money | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/3/