Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 6
The servant who buried his talent said he was afraid of his master.
Who acts: servant, child · What happens: bury, say, be · To what, where: talent · 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 (servant, child), 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 | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 buried | nsubj |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 servant | acl:relcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 talent | nmod:poss |
| 6 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | cop |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 master | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afraid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | the servant | child's talent | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | child | of child's master; afraid property | tree rules |
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.
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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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