Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 3

Others are about money and mercy: the unforgiving servant is let off a huge debt but will not forgive a small one; the rich fool builds bigger barns and dies that night; vineyard workers hired late are paid the same as those hired early.

Who acts: Others, rich fool · What happens: be, let off, not forgive, build, die, hire · To what, where: unforgiving servant, small one, bigger barns, vineyard 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 (Others, rich fool), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 money	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 money	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 money	case
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mercy	cc
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 money	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
9	unforgiving	unforgiving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servant	amod
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux:pass
12	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 money	parataxis
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 debt	det
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 debt	amod
16	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 forgive	cc
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 forgive	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 forgive	advmod
20	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 forgive	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 builds	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fool	det
26	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fool	amod
27	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 builds	nsubj
28	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 forgive	conj
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 barns	amod
30	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 builds	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dies	cc
32	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 builds	conj
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 night	det
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dies	obl:unmarked
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 hired	punct
36	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 workers	compound
37	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 paid	nsubj:pass
38	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 workers	acl
39	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 hired	advmod
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 paid	aux:pass
41	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 dies	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 same	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 paid	obj
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 those	case
45	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 same	obl
46	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 those	acl
47	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 hired	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 money	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Others			about money and mercy	tree rules
2	let off	present · passive		the unforgiving servant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient debt=Theme
3	not forgive	future		a small one			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	build	present	the rich fool	bigger barns			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barn=Product
5	die	present	the rich fool not said here		night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	hire	participle		vineyard workers not said here		late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	pay	present · passive		vineyard workers			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient same=Asset
8	hire	participle				early property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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