--- title: In the pearl of great price a merchant sold everything he had to buy… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics description: In the pearl of great price a merchant sold everything he had to buy one precious pearl. Who acts: merchant, great price. 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 pragmatics of every c --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 12 In the pearl of great price a merchant sold everything he had to buy one precious pearl. **Who acts:** merchant, great price · **What happens:** sell, have, buy, pearl · **To what, where:** everything, pearl, one precious pearl 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 (merchant, great price), 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:12 # text = In the pearl of great price a merchant sold everything he had to buy one precious pearl. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pearl pearl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 9 obj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pearl pearl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | past | a merchant | everything | | the pearl of great price | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | merchant | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | a merchant *not said here* | one precious pearl | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme | | 4 | **pearl** | | great price | | | | | | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent | 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:12`. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/11/) - next →: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/)