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title: The prodigal son, feeding pigs, "came to his senses", went home and… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: The prodigal son, feeding pigs, "came to his senses", went home and said, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you" (Luke 15:17-21). Who acts: prodigal son. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school w
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# Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 13

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The prodigal son, feeding pigs, "came to his senses", went home and said, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you" (Luke 15:17-21).

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**Who acts:** prodigal son · **What happens:** feed, come, go, say, sin · **To what, where:** pigs, senses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» 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 (prodigal son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:13
# text = The prodigal son, feeding pigs, "came to his senses", went home and said, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you" (Luke 15:17-21).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	prodigal	prodigal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
21	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sinned	sin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	ccomp	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	conj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	15:17-21	15:17-21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	flat	_	_
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **feed** | gerund | the prodigal son *not said here* |  | pigs |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the prodigal son |  |  | son's senses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past | the prodigal son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the prodigal son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Father *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sin** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the prodigal son *= son* |  |  |  |  | against heaven | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against heaven=Maleficiary |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

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