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description: In the parable a man was robbed and left half dead; a priest and a Levite, a helper in the Temple, passed by on the other side of the road. Who acts: priest. 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 s
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# Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 8

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In the parable a man was robbed and left half dead; a priest and a Levite, a helper in the Temple, passed by on the other side of the road.

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**Who acts:** priest · **What happens:** rob, leave, pass by · **To what, where:** man, parable, other side

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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 (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:8
# text = In the parable a man was robbed and left half dead; a priest and a Levite, a helper in the Temple, passed by on the other side of the road.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
10	half	half	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Levite	levite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rob** | past · passive |  | a man |  | the parable |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass by** | participle | a priest and a Levite |  |  | the other side of the road |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on side=Location |

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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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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