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title: The elder brother, who had stayed at home, was angry that the father… — Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The elder brother, who had stayed at home, was angry that the father celebrated; the father told him «everything I have is yours» and that they had to celebrate because his brother was lost and is found. Who acts: elder brother, father, everything, priest. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Goo
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# Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 13

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The elder brother, who had stayed at home, was angry that the father celebrated; the father told him «everything I have is yours» and that they had to celebrate because his brother was lost and is found.

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**Who acts:** elder brother, father, everything, priest · **What happens:** stay, be, celebrate, tell, have, lose · **To what, where:** home, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (elder brother, father, everything, priest), 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:13
# text = The elder brother, who had stayed at home, was angry that the father celebrated; the father told him «everything I have is yours» and that they had to celebrate because his brother was lost and is found.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	ccomp	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · perfect | the elder brother |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the elder brother |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **celebrate** | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the father |  | brother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the father *= father* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | everything | brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | priest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | priest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **lose** | past · passive |  | father's brother |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 10 | **find** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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): R7-rel-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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