Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 15
The unforgiving servant was forgiven a huge debt but refused to forgive a small debt owed to him.
What happens: forgive, refuse, not forgive, owe · To what, where: unforgiving servant, small debt, Jesus
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: 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 | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | unforgiving | unforgiving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgiven | aux:pass |
| 5 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 debt | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 debt | amod |
| 8 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgiven | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 refused | cc |
| 10 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgiven | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 forgive | mark |
| 12 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 refused | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 debt | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 debt | amod |
| 15 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgive | obj |
| 16 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 debt | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 owed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgiven | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past · passive | the unforgiving servant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | refuse | past | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not forgive | to-infinitive | a small debt | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme | |||||
| 4 | owe | participle | a small debt not said here | Jesus | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |
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:15.
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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