Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 7
The Good Samaritan was Jesus' answer to a lawyer's question «Who is my neighbour?»; «love your neighbour as yourself» was already a command in the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible, which the lawyer knew.
Who acts: Good Samaritan, question, lawyer · What happens: be, love, know, question · To what, where: answer, neighbour, command, Jewish law, Hebrew Bible · 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 (Good Samaritan, question, lawyer), 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 Samaritan | det |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Samaritan | amod |
| 3 | Samaritan | Samaritan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | cop |
| 5 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 Jesus | case |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 question | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lawyer | det |
| 10 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 question | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 lawyer | case |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nmod |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 neighbour | punct |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 neighbour | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 neighbour | cop |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 question | appos |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 neighbour | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 neighbour | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 command | csubj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 yourself | case |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 love | obl |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 command | cop |
| 29 | already | already | ADV | _ | 31 command | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 command | det |
| 31 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 law | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 law | det |
| 34 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 law | amod |
| 35 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 command | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Bible | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Bible | det |
| 38 | Hebrew | Hebrew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Bible | compound |
| 39 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 law | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 knew | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 knew | obj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lawyer | det |
| 43 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 knew | nsubj |
| 44 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 Bible | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | the Good Samaritan | Jesus's answer and a command | to a lawyer's question | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a lawyer's question | my neighbour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | infinitive | your neighbour | as yourself | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the Good Samaritan not said here | a command | the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | past | the lawyer | the Hebrew Bible | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | question | a lawyer | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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): R8-pos-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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