Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 9
Seed on the rocky ground sprang up fast but withered in the sun because it had no deep roots.
Who acts: Seed · What happens: spring up, wither, have · To what, where: sun, deep roots
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 (Seed), 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 | Seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ground | amod |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seed | nmod |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 sprang | compound:prt |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sprang | advmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 withered | cc |
| 10 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprang | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 withered | obl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 withered | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 roots | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 roots | amod |
| 19 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | Seed on the rocky ground | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wither | past | Seed on the rocky ground not said here | the sun | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | seed | no deep roots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
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:9.
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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