Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 2

Short parables picture God's kingdom: a tiny mustard seed that grows into a large plant where birds nest, a pearl so precious a merchant sells everything for it; and the two builders show that a house on rock stands in the storm while one on sand falls.

Who acts: Short parables, tiny mustard seed, birds, merchant, two builders, house · What happens: picture, grow, nest, sell, show, stand · To what, where: kingdom, large plant, everything, storm · 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 (Short parables, tiny mustard seed, birds, merchant), 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	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 parables	amod
2	parables	parable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 picture	nsubj
3	picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kingdom	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 God	case
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picture	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 picture	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 seed	det
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seed	amod
10	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seed	compound
11	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kingdom	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seed	acl:relcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 plant	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plant	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 plant	amod
17	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grows	obl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 nest	advmod
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 nest	nsubj
20	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 plant	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pearl	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pearl	det
23	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seed	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 precious	advmod
25	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pearl	amod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 merchant	det
27	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sells	nsubj
28	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picture	conj
29	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 sells	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sells	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 show	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 show	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 builders	det
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 builders	nummod
36	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 show	nsubj
37	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 picture	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 stands	mark
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 house	det
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stands	nsubj
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 rock	case
42	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 house	nmod
43	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 show	ccomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 storm	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 storm	det
46	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stands	obl
47	while	while	SCONJ	_	51 falls	mark
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 falls	nsubj
49	on	on	ADP	_	50 sand	case
50	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 one	nmod
51	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 stands	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picture	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	present	Short parables	God's kingdom			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
2	grow	present	a tiny mustard seed and a pearl			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
4	sell	present	a merchant	everything		for seed	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent everything=Theme for it=Asset
5	show	present	the two builders				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	stand	present	a house on rock		the storm		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in storm=Location
7	fall	present	one on sand				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:2.

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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