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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 (talent, two servants, one), 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:5 # text = In the Parable of the Talents a talent was a large sum of money; two servants traded and doubled theirs, and one buried his. # 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 ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Parable parable PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Talents talent PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 talent talent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 traded trade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 doubled double VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 25 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | a talent | a large sum | | | | of money | tree rules | | 2 | **trade** | past | two servants | | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **double** | past | two servants *not said here* | servants *= servant* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent their=Patient | | 4 | **bury** | past | one | child | | the Parable of the Talents | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent his=Theme in parable=Destination | 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:5`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/4/) - next →: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/)