--- title: Zacchaeus was a short, dishonest tax collector who climbed a tree to… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics description: Zacchaeus was a short, dishonest tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus; after Jesus went to his house he paid back four times what he had cheated. Who acts: Zacchaeus, short dishonest tax collector, Jesus. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zacchaeus, short dishonest tax collector, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson:11 # text = Zacchaeus was a short, dishonest tax collector who climbed a tree to see Jesus; after Jesus went to his house he paid back four times what he had cheated. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 013-jesus-life-and-teaching.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Zacchaeus Zacchaeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 4 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 dishonest dishonest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 collector collector NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 15 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 cheated cheat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Zacchaeus | a short dishonest tax collector | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **climb** | past | a short dishonest tax collector | a tree | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | a short dishonest tax collector *not said here* | Jesus | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jesus=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | past | Jesus | | | Jesus's house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **pay back** | past | Jesus | | | | time | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cheat** | past · perfect | Jesus | four times | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Source | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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