Sharing and fairness, sentence 16
Jesus praised a poor widow who gave two tiny coins, because she gave all she had; he said she had given more than all the rich people who gave out of their spare money (Mark 12:41-44).
Who acts: Jesus, poor widow, widow, rich people · What happens: praise, give, have, say, give out · To what, where: poor widow, two tiny coins, all, more, spare money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharing and fairness» 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, poor widow, widow, rich 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | nsubj |
| 2 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | parataxis |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 widow | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 widow | amod |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 widow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 coins | nummod |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coins | amod |
| 10 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 gave | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 praised | advcl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 praised | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 given | obj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 people | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | amod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 more | obl |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 people | acl:relcl |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 money | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 money | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 money | nmod:poss |
| 35 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 money | amod |
| 36 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obl |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 Mark | punct |
| 38 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 money | appos |
| 39 | 12:41-44 | 12:41-44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 Mark | flat |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 Mark | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | participle | Jesus | a poor widow | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a poor widow | two tiny coins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Jesus | all | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Jesus | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | widow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give | past · perfect | Jesus | more | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give out | past | all rich people | People's spare money | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=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:043-sharing-and-fairness.lesson:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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