--- title: In the Sower seed falls on the path, on rocky ground, among thorns a… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics description: In the Sower seed falls on the path, on rocky ground, among thorns and on good soil; Jesus explained the soils as kinds of listener, and only the good soil gives a big harvest. Who acts: Sower seed, Jesus, good soil. 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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 (Sower seed, Jesus, good soil), 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:1 # text = In the Sower seed falls on the path, on rocky ground, among thorns and on good soil; Jesus explained the soils as kinds of listener, and only the good soil gives a big harvest. # 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): 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 Sower sower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 rocky rocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 among among ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 soils soil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 listener listener NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | the Sower seed | | | the path on rocky ground | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | the soils | | | | as kinds of listener | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Topic | | 3 | **give** | present | the good soil | a big harvest | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme | 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:1`. **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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