Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 1
Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector of Jericho, climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus; after Jesus came to his house, he gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10).
Who acts: Zacchaeus, Jesus · What happens: climb, see, come, give, pay back, cheat · To what, where: fig tree, Jesus, house, possessions, poor, anyone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (Zacchaeus, Jesus), 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 | Zacchaeus | Zacchaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 collector | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 collector | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 collector | amod |
| 5 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collector | compound |
| 6 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Zacchaeus | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Jericho | case |
| 8 | Jericho | Jericho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 collector | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Zacchaeus | punct |
| 10 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 12 | sycamore | sycamore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fig | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sycamore | punct |
| 14 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 climbed | advcl |
| 18 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 21 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gave | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 climbed | parataxis |
| 29 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 31 possessions | det:predet |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 31 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gave | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 poor | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 poor | det |
| 34 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gave | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 paid | cc |
| 36 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gave | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 paid | advmod |
| 38 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 times | nummod |
| 39 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 paid | obj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 cheated | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 cheated | aux |
| 43 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 Luke | punct |
| 45 | Luke | Luke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 climbed | dep |
| 46 | 19:1-10 | 19:1-10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 Luke | flat |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 Luke | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Zacchaeus | a fig tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Zacchaeus not said here | Jesus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jesus=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Jesus | Jesus's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Zacchaeus | Jesus's possessions | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Theme to poor=Recipient | |||
| 5 | pay back | past | Zacchaeus not said here | anyone | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset | |||
| 6 | cheat | past · perfect | Zacchaeus | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | possess | Jesus | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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