--- title: Christians read the vineyard parable as showing that God's generosit… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics description: Christians read the vineyard parable as showing that God's generosity is not earned, but many find it puzzling and its fairness is discussed. Who acts: Christians, many. 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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 (Christians, many), 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:18 # text = Christians read the vineyard parable as showing that God's generosity is not earned, but many find it puzzling and its fairness is discussed. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×5 1 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 vineyard vineyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 parable parable NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 9 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 generosity generosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 earned earn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NNS:_ 18 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 puzzling puzzle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 fairness fairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 discussed discuss VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **read** | past | Christians | the vineyard parable | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Topic | | 2 | **show** | gerund | Christians *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **earn** | present · passive | | God's generosity | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **find** | present | many | generosity | | | | puzzle *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present · passive | | generosity's fairness | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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. 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