Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 4
In the Lost Sheep a shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one, and in the Lost Coin a woman sweeps her house for one silver coin; both celebrate when they find it.
Who acts: shepherd, woman, both, Sheep · What happens: lose, leave, find, sweep, celebrate · To what, where: nine sheep, one, house, Lost Coin
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 (shepherd, woman, both, Sheep), 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 Sheep | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sheep | det |
| 3 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Sheep | amod |
| 4 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaves | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | nsubj |
| 7 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 nine | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ninety | punct |
| 10 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sheep | nummod |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaves | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leaves | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweeps | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sweeps | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Coin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Coin | det |
| 19 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Coin | amod |
| 20 | Coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeps | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeps | nsubj |
| 23 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaves | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeps | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 coin | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 coin | nummod |
| 28 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 coin | amod |
| 29 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeps | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 celebrate | punct |
| 31 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 celebrate | nsubj |
| 32 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sweeps | conj |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 find | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 celebrate | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | leave | present | a shepherd | nine sheep | in the Lost Sheep | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in sheep=Location | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a shepherd not said here | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sweep | present | a woman | woman's house | the Lost Coin | for one silver coin | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme in coin=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | celebrate | infinitive | both | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | find | present | Sheep | house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:4.
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 ×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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