--- title: In the Talents a master gives his servants large sums of money; two… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics description: In the Talents a master gives his servants large sums of money; two trade and double theirs, but one buries his out of fear — Christians read it as «use the gifts God gives you, do not hide them». Who acts: master, two, one, Christians. 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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 (master, two, one, Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.lesson:0 # text = In the Talents a master gives his servants large sums of money; two trade and double theirs, but one buries his out of fear — Christians read it as «use the gifts God gives you, do not hide them». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Talents talent PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 9 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nsubj _ _ 15 trade trade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 double double VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 22 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod:poss 24 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 27 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=33:punct 40 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 » » PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **give** | present | a master | large sums of money | master's servants | the Talents | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient sum=Theme | | 2 | **trade** | present | two | | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **double** | present | two *not said here* | sums *= sum* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent their=Patient | | 4 | **bury** | present | one | master | | fear | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent his=Theme out fear=Destination | | 5 | **read** | past | Christians | fear | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **use** *in a quote* | infinitive | Christians *not said here* | the gifts | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | present | God | the gifts *not said here* | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 8 | **not** **hide** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Christians *not said here* | gifts *= gift* | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 9 | **sum** | | | money | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: 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:015-parables-talents-sower-and-more.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prod…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/17/) - next →: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/)