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title: In the Lost Sheep a shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one, a… — Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Lost Sheep a shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one, and in the Lost Coin a woman sweeps her house for one silver coin; both celebrate when they find it. Who acts: shepherd, woman, both, Sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep»
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# Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 4

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In the Lost Sheep a shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one, and in the Lost Coin a woman sweeps her house for one silver coin; both celebrate when they find it.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, woman, both, Sheep · **What happens:** lose, leave, find, sweep, celebrate · **To what, where:** nine sheep, one, house, Lost Coin

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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 (shepherd, woman, both, Sheep), 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:4
# text = In the Lost Sheep a shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one, and in the Lost Coin a woman sweeps her house for one silver coin; both celebrate when they find it.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	Coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
32	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | present | a shepherd | nine sheep |  |  |  | in the Lost Sheep | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in sheep=Location |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | a shepherd *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sweep** | present | a woman | woman's house |  | the Lost Coin |  | for one silver coin | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme in coin=Trajectory |
| 6 | **celebrate** | infinitive | both |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **find** | present | Sheep | house |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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): R5-strong ×1, 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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