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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 (younger son, father, elder brother, 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:3 # text = In the Prodigal Son a younger son wastes his share of his father's money and comes home ashamed; the father runs to welcome him, while the elder brother sulks at the party. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 wastes waste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|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 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 welcome welcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sulks sulk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **waste** | present | a younger son | Son's share of Son's father's money | | | | in the Prodigal Son | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | | 2 | **come** | present | a younger son *not said here* | | | | | ashamed, home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **run** | present | the father | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | the father *not said here* | father | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **sulk** | present | the elder brother | | | the party | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **share** | | Son | Son's father's money | | | | | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.lesson:3`. **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 ×2. **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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