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title: The unforgiving servant was forgiven a huge debt but refused to forg… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics
description: The unforgiving servant was forgiven a huge debt but refused to forgive a small debt owed to him. 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 clause.
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# Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 15

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The unforgiving servant was forgiven a huge debt but refused to forgive a small debt owed to him.

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**What happens:** forgive, refuse, not forgive, owe · **To what, where:** unforgiving servant, small debt, Jesus

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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: 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:15
# text = The unforgiving servant was forgiven a huge debt but refused to forgive a small debt owed to him.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unforgiving	unforgiving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	owed	owe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forgive** | past · passive |  | the unforgiving servant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **refuse** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **forgive** | to-infinitive |  | a small debt |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme |
| 4 | **owe** | participle |  | a small debt *not said here* | Jesus |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal |

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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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**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:15`.

**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): no change. **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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