--- title: In Jesus's parable of the great banquet, the guests "all alike began… — Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the tru… · tree and pragmatics description: In Jesus's parable of the great banquet, the guests "all alike began to make excuses" (Luke 14:18); excuses stop us fixing the real problem. Who acts: guests, excuses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, excuses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:5 # text = In Jesus's parable of the great banquet, the guests "all alike began to make excuses" (Luke 14:18); excuses stop us fixing the real problem. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Jesus Jesus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 parable parable NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 excuses excuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Luke Luke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:parataxis 22 14:18 14:18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 excuses excuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the guests | | | Jesus's parable of the great banquet | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the guests *not said here* | excuses | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | | 3 | **stop** | present | excuses | us | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fix** | gerund | excuses *not said here* | the real problem | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:5`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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