Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 18

Christians read the vineyard parable as showing that God's generosity is not earned, but many find it puzzling and its fairness is discussed.

Who acts: Christians, many · What happens: read, show, not earn, find, discuss · To what, where: vineyard parable, generosity, fairness · 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 (Christians, many), 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	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 read	nsubj
2	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parable	det
4	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parable	compound
5	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 read	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 showing	mark
7	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 read	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 earned	mark
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 generosity	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 God	case
11	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earned	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 earned	aux:pass
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 earned	advmod
14	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 showing	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 find	nsubj
18	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 read	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	puzzling	puzzle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 find	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 discussed	cc
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fairness	nmod:poss
23	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 discussed	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 discussed	aux:pass
25	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 puzzling	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 read	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	past	Christians	the vineyard parable		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Topic
2	show	gerund	Christians not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not earn	present · passive		God's generosity		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	find	present	many	generosity	puzzle property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	discuss speech: other	present · passive		generosity's fairness		vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:18.

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): R8-pos-agree ×5. 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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