Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 12
In the pearl of great price a merchant sold everything he had to buy one precious pearl.
Who acts: merchant, great price · What happens: sell, have, buy, pearl · To what, where: everything, pearl, one precious pearl
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 (merchant, great price), 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 pearl | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pearl | det |
| 3 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sold | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 price | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 price | amod |
| 6 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pearl | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sold | nsubj |
| 9 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 sold | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 everything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 buy | mark |
| 14 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sold | advcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 pearl | nummod |
| 16 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pearl | amod |
| 17 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buy | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | a merchant | everything | the pearl of great price | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | merchant | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | a merchant not said here | one precious pearl | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pearl | great price | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=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): 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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