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title: Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector of Jericho, climbed a sycamore-fi… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 1

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Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector of Jericho, climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus; after Jesus came to his house, he gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10).

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**Who acts:** Zacchaeus, Jesus · **What happens:** climb, see, come, give, pay back, cheat · **To what, where:** fig tree, Jesus, house, possessions, poor, anyone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (Zacchaeus, Jesus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:1
# text = Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector of Jericho, climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see Jesus; after Jesus came to his house, he gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.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 ×3
1	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
18	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
37	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	obj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
45	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	dep	_	_
46	19:1-10	19:1-10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	flat	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **climb** | past | Zacchaeus | a fig tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Zacchaeus *not said here* | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jesus=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | Jesus |  |  | Jesus's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **give** | past | Zacchaeus | Jesus's possessions | the poor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Theme to poor=Recipient |
| 5 | **pay back** | past | Zacchaeus *not said here* | anyone |  |  | time |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset |
| 6 | **cheat** | past · perfect | Zacchaeus |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **possess** |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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 ×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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