Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 1

In the Sower seed falls on the path, on rocky ground, among thorns and on good soil; Jesus explained the soils as kinds of listener, and only the good soil gives a big harvest.

Who acts: Sower seed, Jesus, good soil · What happens: fall, explain, give · To what, where: path, soils, big harvest

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 (Sower seed, Jesus, good soil), 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 seed	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seed	det
3	Sower	sower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seed	compound
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	nsubj
5	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ground	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ground	amod
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 path	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thorns	punct
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 thorns	case
15	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 path	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 soil	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 soil	case
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 soil	amod
19	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thorns	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 explained	punct
21	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 explained	nsubj
22	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 falls	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soils	det
24	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 explained	obj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 kinds	case
26	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 explained	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 listener	case
28	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kinds	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gives	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gives	cc
31	only	only	ADV	_	34 soil	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 soil	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 soil	amod
34	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gives	nsubj
35	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 falls	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 harvest	det
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 harvest	amod
38	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gives	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 falls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the Sower seed		the path on rocky ground		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location
2	explain speech: assert	past	Jesus	the soils		as kinds of listener	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Topic
3	give	present	the good soil	a big harvest			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme

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:1.

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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