--- title: Jesus explained the four soils as kinds of listener; only the good s… — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more · tree and pragmatics description: Jesus explained the four soils as kinds of listener; only the good soil gave a big harvest. Who acts: Jesus, good soil. 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 cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/) / 8 # Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more, sentence 8 Jesus explained the four soils as kinds of listener; only the good soil gave a big harvest. **Who acts:** Jesus, good soil · **What happens:** explain, give · **To what, where:** four soils, big harvest 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 (Jesus, good soil), 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:8 # text = Jesus explained the four soils as kinds of listener; only the good soil gave a big harvest. # 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 ×1 1 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 soils soil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 listener listener NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus | the four soils | | | | as kinds of listener | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Topic | | 2 | **give** | past | the good soil | a big harvest | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme | 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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