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description: In the Prodigal Son a younger son took his share of his father's money, wasted it, and came home ashamed. Who acts: younger son, Son. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 11

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In the Prodigal Son a younger son took his share of his father's money, wasted it, and came home ashamed.

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**Who acts:** younger son, Son · **What happens:** take, waste, come, share · **To what, where:** share, money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep» 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 (younger son, Son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.lesson:11
# text = In the Prodigal Son a younger son took his share of his father's money, wasted it, and came home ashamed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Prodigal	Prodigal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a younger son | Son's share of Son's father's money |  |  |  | in the Prodigal Son | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent share=Value in son=Location |
| 2 | **waste** | past | a younger son *not said here* | share |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | a younger son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ashamed, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **share** |  | Son | Son's father's money |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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): 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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