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title: Zacchaeus gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four t… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Zacchaeus gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10); the law asked only for the amount plus a fifth (Numbers 5:7). Who acts: Zacchaeus, law. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 5

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Zacchaeus gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10); the law asked only for the amount plus a fifth (Numbers 5:7).

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**Who acts:** Zacchaeus, law · **What happens:** give, pay back, cheat, ask, possess · **To what, where:** possessions, poor, anyone, Luke

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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, law), 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:5
# text = Zacchaeus gave half his possessions to the poor and paid back four times anyone he had cheated (Luke 19:1-10); the law asked only for the amount plus a fifth (Numbers 5:7).
# 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): no change
1	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	19:1-10	19:1-10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Numbers	numbers	X	GW	_	25	dep	_	_
35	5:7	5:7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **give** | past | Zacchaeus | Zacchaeus's possessions | the poor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent possession=Theme to poor=Recipient |
| 2 | **pay back** | past | Zacchaeus *not said here* | anyone |  |  | time |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Asset |
| 3 | **cheat** | past · perfect | Zacchaeus | Luke |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luke=Source |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the law |  |  |  |  | for the amount plus a fifth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **possess** |  | Zacchaeus |  |  |  |  |  | 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): no change. **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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