Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 8
Jesus explained the four soils as kinds of listener; only the good soil gave a big harvest.
Who acts: Jesus, good soil · What happens: explain, give · To what, where: four soils, big harvest
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 (Jesus, good soil), 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 explained | nsubj |
| 2 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soils | det |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 soils | nummod |
| 5 | soils | soil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 explained | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 kinds | case |
| 7 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 explained | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 listener | case |
| 9 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kinds | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 soil | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soil | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soil | amod |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 explained | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 harvest | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 harvest | amod |
| 18 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Jesus | the four soils | as kinds of listener | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | past | the good soil | a big harvest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=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:8.
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 ×1. 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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