Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 0

In the Talents a master gives his servants large sums of money; two trade and double theirs, but one buries his out of fear — Christians read it as «use the gifts God gives you, do not hide them».

Who acts: master, two, one, Christians, God · What happens: give, trade, double, bury, read, use · To what, where: large sums, servants, Talents, sums, master, fear

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» 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 (master, two, one, Christians), 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	_	3 Talents	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Talents	det
3	Talents	talent	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 gives	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 servants	nmod:poss
8	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gives	iobj
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sums	amod
10	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gives	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 money	case
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sums	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 trade	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 trade	nsubj
15	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gives	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 double	cc
17	double	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 trade	conj
18	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 double	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 buries	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 buries	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 buries	nsubj
22	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gives	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 buries	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	26 fear	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 fear	case
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 buries	obl
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 Christians	punct
28	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 read	nsubj
29	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fear	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 read	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 use	mark
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 use	punct
33	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 read	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 gifts	det
35	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 use	obj
36	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 gives	nsubj
37	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 gifts	acl:relcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 gives	iobj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hide	punct
40	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 hide	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 hide	advmod
42	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 use	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hide	obj
44	»	»	PUNCT	_	42 hide	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	a master	large sums of money	master's servants	the Talents	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient sum=Theme
2	trade	present	two				vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	double	present	two not said here	sums = sum			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent their=Patient
4	bury	present	one	master		fear	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent his=Theme out fear=Destination
5	read	past	Christians	fear			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	use in a quote	infinitive	Christians not said here	the gifts			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
7	give in a quote	present	God	the gifts not said here	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
8	not hide in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Christians not said here	gifts = gift			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
9	sum			money			nom sum «possession transitive»: 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:015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.lesson:0.

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 ×2, 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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