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title: Christians believe these stories show that God welcomes anyone who t… — Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe these stories show that God welcomes anyone who turns back (repentance), and that a neighbour is anyone in need — even someone from a group you were taught to dislike. Who acts: Christians, stories, God, neighbour. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodig
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# Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 5

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Christians believe these stories show that God welcomes anyone who turns back (repentance), and that a neighbour is anyone in need — even someone from a group you were taught to dislike.

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**Who acts:** Christians, stories, God, neighbour, group, you · **What happens:** believe, show, welcome, turn back, be, teach · **To what, where:** anyone, repentance, need, you · **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 (Christians, stories, God, neighbour), 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:5
# text = Christians believe these stories show that God welcomes anyone who turns back (repentance), and that a neighbour is anyone in need — even someone from a group you were taught to dislike.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	welcomes	welcome	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
14	repentance	repentance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	dislike	dislike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **show** | present | this stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **welcome** | present | God | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
| 4 | **turn back** | present |  | repentance |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repentance=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a neighbour | anyone |  | need |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive | a group *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **dislike** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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