Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 11
The kingdom of God is like a tiny mustard seed that grows into a large plant where birds nest.
Who acts: kingdom, tiny mustard seed, birds · What happens: be, grow, nest · To what, where: large plant
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 (kingdom, tiny mustard seed, birds), 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 | 2 kingdom | det |
| 2 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 God | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kingdom | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seed | cop |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 seed | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seed | det |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seed | amod |
| 9 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seed | compound |
| 10 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 grows | nsubj |
| 12 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seed | acl:relcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 plant | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 plant | amod |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grows | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 nest | advmod |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nest | nsubj |
| 19 | nest | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 plant | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the kingdom of God | like a tiny mustard seed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | a tiny mustard seed | into a large plant result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result | ||||
| 3 | nest | present | birds | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=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.
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:11.
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): no change. 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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