Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 5
Christians believe these stories show that God welcomes anyone who turns back (repentance), and that a neighbour is anyone in need — even someone from a group you were taught to dislike.
Who acts: Christians, stories, God, neighbour, group, you · What happens: believe, show, welcome, turn back, be, teach · To what, where: anyone, repentance, need, you · 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 (Christians, stories, God, neighbour), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 welcomes | mark |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 welcomes | nsubj |
| 8 | welcomes | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | ccomp |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 welcomes | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 turns | advmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 repentance | punct |
| 14 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turns | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 repentance | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 anyone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 anyone | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 anyone | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 neighbour | det |
| 20 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anyone | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 anyone | cop |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 welcomes | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 need | case |
| 24 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anyone | nmod |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 someone | punct |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 someone | advmod |
| 27 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 anyone | appos |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 group | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 group | det |
| 30 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 someone | nmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taught | aux:pass |
| 33 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 group | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 dislike | mark |
| 35 | dislike | dislike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 taught | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | present | this stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | welcome | present | God | anyone | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn back | present | repentance | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repentance=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a neighbour | anyone | need | tree rules | |||
| 6 | teach speech: other | past · passive | a group not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | dislike | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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