Little lies at home, sentence 22
Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged.
Who acts: Confession, you · What happens: lift, not replace, say, wrong · To what, where: weight, person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» of the everyday 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 (Confession, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lift | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 church | case |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Confession | nmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lift | aux |
| 5 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weight | det |
| 7 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lift | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 guilt | case |
| 9 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replace | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 replace | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 replace | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 replace | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 replace | advmod |
| 15 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lift | conj |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 replace | xcomp |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saying | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 person | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sorry | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 wronged | nsubj |
| 22 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 person | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | can | Confession at church | the weight of guilt | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not replace | present · do-support | confession | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: apologize | gerund | confession not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wrong | past | you | the person not said here | tree rules |
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, 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:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:22.
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.
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