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title: Jesus told of two sons: one said "I will go" to the vineyard and did… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: Jesus told of two sons: one said "I will go" to the vineyard and didn't, the other said "I won't" and then went; the second did his father's will (Matthew 21:28-31). Who acts: Jesus, one, I, other. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics course of M
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 16

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Jesus told of two sons: one said "I will go" to the vineyard and didn't, the other said "I won't" and then went; the second did his father's will (Matthew 21:28-31).

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**Who acts:** Jesus, one, I, other, second, father · **What happens:** tell, say, go, do, will · **To what, where:** vineyard, will · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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, one, I, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:16
# text = Jesus told of two sons: one said "I will go" to the vineyard and didn't, the other said "I won't" and then went; the second did his father's will (Matthew 21:28-31).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:aux
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	will	will	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:dep
42	21:28-31	21:28-31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	appos	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | of two sons | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  | the vineyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to vineyard=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | future | the other *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past | the second | Jesus's father's will |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Eventuality |
| 7 | **will** |  | Jesus's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×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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