Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 5
Zacchaeus gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10); the law asked only for the amount plus a fifth (Numbers 5:7).
Who acts: Zacchaeus, law · What happens: give, pay back, cheat, ask, possess · To what, where: possessions, poor, anyone, Luke
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, law), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 possessions | det:predet |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 poor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poor | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 paid | cc |
| 10 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 paid | advmod |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 paid | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cheated | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cheated | aux |
| 17 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 Luke | punct |
| 19 | Luke | Luke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cheated | obj |
| 20 | 19:1-10 | 19:1-10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Luke | flat |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 Luke | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 asked | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 law | det |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | nsubj |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 amount | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 amount | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 amount | det |
| 29 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | obl |
| 30 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 32 fifth | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fifth | det |
| 32 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 amount | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 Numbers | punct |
| 34 | Numbers | numbers | X | _ | 25 asked | dep |
| 35 | 5:7 | 5:7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 Numbers | flat |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 Numbers | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Zacchaeus | Zacchaeus's possessions | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Theme to poor=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pay back | past | Zacchaeus not said here | anyone | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset | |||
| 3 | cheat | past · perfect | Zacchaeus | Luke | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luke=Source | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the law | for the amount plus a fifth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | possess | Zacchaeus | 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.
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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:5.
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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