Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 4
For a child today: try instead of hiding, listen with an open heart, forgive as you were forgiven, and remember life is not about how much you own; the vineyard story is a puzzle people still argue about.
Who acts: you, life, vineyard story, people · What happens: try, hide, listen, forgive, remember, not be · To what, where: you, puzzle · 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 (you, life, vineyard story, people), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 9 hiding | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 try | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 listen | punct |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 listen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgive | punct |
| 17 | forgive | forgive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 forgiven | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 forgiven | aux:pass |
| 21 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 forgive | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remember | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remember | cc |
| 24 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 forgive | conj |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 own | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 own | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 own | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 32 own | mark |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 own | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 own | nsubj |
| 32 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 remember | ccomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 argue | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 story | det |
| 35 | vineyard | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 story | compound |
| 36 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 puzzle | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 puzzle | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 puzzle | det |
| 39 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | parataxis |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 argue | nsubj |
| 41 | still | still | ADV | _ | 42 argue | advmod |
| 42 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 puzzle | acl:relcl |
| 43 | about | about | ADV | _ | 42 argue | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | for a child today | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | you not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | you not said here | with a open heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | forgive | infinitive | you not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | forgive | past · passive | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | remember | infinitive | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not is | present | life | own property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | the vineyard story | a puzzle | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | argue speech: disagree | present | people | a puzzle not said here | still | about property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent puzzle=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:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/4/