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title: The Good Samaritan was Jesus' answer to a lawyer's question «Who is… — Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Good Samaritan was Jesus' answer to a lawyer's question «Who is my neighbour?»; «love your neighbour as yourself» was already a command in the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible, which the lawyer knew. Who acts: Good Samaritan, question, lawyer. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan
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# Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 7

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The Good Samaritan was Jesus' answer to a lawyer's question «Who is my neighbour?»; «love your neighbour as yourself» was already a command in the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible, which the lawyer knew.

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**Who acts:** Good Samaritan, question, lawyer · **What happens:** be, love, know, question · **To what, where:** answer, neighbour, command, Jewish law, Hebrew Bible · **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 (Good Samaritan, question, lawyer), 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:7
# text = The Good Samaritan was Jesus' answer to a lawyer's question «Who is my neighbour?»; «love your neighbour as yourself» was already a command in the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible, which the lawyer knew.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Samaritan	Samaritan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	love	love	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	csubj	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	already	already	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | the Good Samaritan | Jesus's answer and a command |  |  |  | to a lawyer's question | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a lawyer's question | my neighbour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your neighbour |  |  |  | as yourself | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the Good Samaritan *not said here* | a command |  | the Jewish law of the Hebrew Bible |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | past | the lawyer | the Hebrew Bible |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 6 | **question** |  | a lawyer |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R8-pos-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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