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title: Others are about money and mercy: the unforgiving servant is let off… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics
description: Others are about money and mercy: the unforgiving servant is let off a huge debt but will not forgive a small one; the rich fool builds bigger barns and dies that night; vineyard workers hired late are paid the same as those hired early. Who acts: Others, rich fool. A sentence of the lesson «Parable
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# Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 3

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Others are about money and mercy: the unforgiving servant is let off a huge debt but will not forgive a small one; the rich fool builds bigger barns and dies that night; vineyard workers hired late are paid the same as those hired early.

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**Who acts:** Others, rich fool · **What happens:** be, let off, not forgive, build, die, hire · **To what, where:** unforgiving servant, small one, bigger barns, vineyard workers

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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: who acts (Others, rich fool), 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:3
# text = Others are about money and mercy: the unforgiving servant is let off a huge debt but will not forgive a small one; the rich fool builds bigger barns and dies that night; vineyard workers hired late are paid the same as those hired early.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	unforgiving	unforgiving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obj	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	obl	_	_
46	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Others |  |  |  |  | about money and mercy | tree rules |
| 2 | **let off** | present · passive |  | the unforgiving servant |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient debt=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **forgive** | future |  | a small one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | present | the rich fool | bigger barns |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset barn=Product |
| 5 | **die** | present | the rich fool *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **hire** | participle |  | vineyard workers *not said here* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pay** | present · passive |  | vineyard workers |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient same=Asset |
| 8 | **hire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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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