Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 7
On Saturday he told it at confession; the priest gave him absolution (forgiveness in God's name) and a small penance (a short prayer or task to show he is sorry), and he felt the weight lift.
Who acts: stomach, priest, God · What happens: tell, give, show, be, feel, name · To what, where: purse, confession, absolution, stomach, weight lift · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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 (stomach, priest, God), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Saturday | case |
| 2 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 confession | case |
| 7 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 priest | det |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | absolution | absolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgiveness | punct |
| 15 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 absolution | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 God | case |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgiveness | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgiveness | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 penance | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 penance | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 penance | amod |
| 24 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 absolution | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 prayer | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 prayer | det |
| 27 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 prayer | amod |
| 28 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 penance | appos |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 task | cc |
| 30 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prayer | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 show | mark |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 prayer | acl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sorry | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 sorry | cop |
| 35 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 show | ccomp |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 prayer | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 felt | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 felt | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 felt | nsubj |
| 40 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lift | det |
| 42 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lift | compound |
| 43 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 felt | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | stomach | purse | confession | saturday | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||
| 2 | give | past | the priest | absolution and a small penance | stomach | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient absolution=Theme | |||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | the priest not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | stomach | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | stomach | the weight lift | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lift=Theme | ||||
| 6 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:7.
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. 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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