--- title: Jesus said the thorns stand for worries and the love of riches, whic… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus said the thorns stand for worries and the love of riches, which choke the good word like weeds. Who acts: Jesus, thorns, worries. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/) / 10 # Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 10 Jesus said the thorns stand for worries and the love of riches, which choke the good word like weeds. **Who acts:** Jesus, thorns, worries · **What happens:** say, stand, choke, love · **To what, where:** good word, riches · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» 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 (Jesus, thorns, worries), 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:10 # text = Jesus said the thorns stand for worries and the love of riches, which choke the good word like weeds. # 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 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 worries worry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 riches rich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 choke choke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stand** | present | the thorns | | | | | for worries and the love of riches | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for worry=Attribute | | 3 | **choke** | present | worries and the love of riches | the good word | | | | like weeds | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Destination | | 4 | **love** | | | riches | | | | | nom love «feeling 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:10`. **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. **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 Talents, the Sower and m…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/9/) - next →: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/)