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title: Owning up late is still worth it: the prodigal son came home after a… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up late is still worth it: the prodigal son came home after a long time, and his father ran to meet him (Luke 15:20). Who acts: Owning, prodigal son, father. A sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school 
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# Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 14

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Owning up late is still worth it: the prodigal son came home after a long time, and his father ran to meet him (Luke 15:20).

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**Who acts:** Owning, prodigal son, father · **What happens:** own up, be, come, run, meet · **To what, where:** father

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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 (Owning, prodigal son, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:14
# text = Owning up late is still worth it: the prodigal son came home after a long time, and his father ran to meet him (Luke 15:20).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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 ×2
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	prodigal	prodigal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
28	15:20	15:20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present | Owning |  |  |  | still | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the prodigal son |  |  |  | time | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | past | son's father |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | son's father *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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