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title: For a child today: try instead of hiding, listen with an open heart,… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today: try instead of hiding, listen with an open heart, forgive as you were forgiven, and remember life is not about how much you own; the vineyard story is a puzzle people still argue about. Who acts: you, life, vineyard story, people. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Talents, t
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# Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 4

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For a child today: try instead of hiding, listen with an open heart, forgive as you were forgiven, and remember life is not about how much you own; the vineyard story is a puzzle people still argue about.

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**Who acts:** you, life, vineyard story, people · **What happens:** try, hide, listen, forgive, remember, not be · **To what, where:** you, puzzle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, life, vineyard story, people), 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:4
# text = For a child today: try instead of hiding, listen with an open heart, forgive as you were forgiven, and remember life is not about how much you own; the vineyard story is a puzzle people still argue about.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
28	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
40	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	about	about	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a open heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forgive** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **forgive** | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | life |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present | the vineyard story | a puzzle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | a puzzle *not said here* |  |  | still | about *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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