Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 5

In Jesus's parable of the great banquet, the guests "all alike began to make excuses" (Luke 14:18); excuses stop us fixing the real problem.

Who acts: guests, excuses · What happens: begin, make, stop, fix · To what, where: parable, excuses, us, real problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (guests, excuses), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 parable	case
2	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 parable	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Jesus	case
4	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 banquet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 banquet	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 banquet	amod
8	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 parable	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 parable	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guests	det
11	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 guests	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 alike	det
14	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 guests	amod
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 make	obj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 Luke	punct
21	Luke	Luke	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 began	parataxis
22	14:18	14:18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 Luke	flat
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 Luke	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stop	punct
25	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stop	nsubj
26	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 began	parataxis
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 stop	obj
28	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 stop	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 problem	det
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 problem	amod
31	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fixing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin in a quote	past	the guests		Jesus's parable of the great banquet	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	the guests not said here	excuses		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product
3	stop	present	excuses	us		tree rules
4	fix	gerund	excuses not said here	the real problem		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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