Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 8

The law of Moses made people pay for damage they caused (Exodus 21:33-34), and Zacchaeus paid back what he owed (Luke 19:8).

Who acts: law, people, Zacchaeus · What happens: make, pay, cause, pay back, owe · To what, where: people, Exodus, Luke

This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (law, people, Zacchaeus), 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 law	det
2	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Moses	case
4	Moses	Moses	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 law	nmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pay	obj
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 damage	case
9	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caused	nsubj
11	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 damage	acl:relcl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 Exodus	punct
13	Exodus	exodus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caused	obj
14	21:33-34	21:33-34	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Exodus	flat
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 Exodus	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 paid	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 paid	cc
18	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 paid	nsubj
19	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 paid	advmod
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 paid	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 owed	nsubj
23	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 Luke	punct
25	Luke	luke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 owed	obj
26	19:8	19:8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 Luke	flat
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	25 Luke	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the law of Moses			tree rules
2	pay	infinitive	the law of Moses not said here	people	for damage	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Asset for damage=Theme
3	cause	past	people	Exodus		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition exodus=Patient
4	pay back	past	Zacchaeus			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset
5	owe	past	Zacchaeus	Luke		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent luke=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:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): 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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