Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 17
The early workers were paid exactly what the landowner had promised them in the morning, yet they grumbled.
Who acts: landowner, workers · What happens: pay, promise, grumble · To what, where: early workers, workers
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 (landowner, workers), 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 workers | det |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 workers | amod |
| 3 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | aux:pass |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 what | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 promised | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 landowner | det |
| 9 | landowner | landowner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promised | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 promised | aux |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 paid | ccomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 promised | iobj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promised | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grumbled | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 grumbled | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 grumbled | nsubj |
| 19 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | the early workers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | the landowner | workers = worker | morning | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal what=Theme | |||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | workers = worker | vn complain-37.8 «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:17.
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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