Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 10
Jesus said the thorns stand for worries and the love of riches, which choke the good word like weeds.
Who acts: Jesus, thorns, worries · What happens: say, stand, choke, love · To what, where: good word, riches · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jesus, thorns, worries), 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thorns | det |
| 4 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 worries | case |
| 7 | worries | worry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stand | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 love | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 love | det |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worries | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 riches | case |
| 12 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 love | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 choke | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 choke | nsubj |
| 15 | choke | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worries | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 word | amod |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 choke | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 weeds | case |
| 20 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 word | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jesus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stand | present | the thorns | for worries and the love of riches | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for worry=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | choke | present | worries and the love of riches | the good word | like weeds | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Destination | |||
| 4 | love | riches | nom love «feeling 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:10.
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. 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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