Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 17
Confession can ease a guilty heart, but the person you blamed still needs your sorry and the truth told.
Who acts: Confession, you, person · What happens: ease, blame, need, tell · To what, where: guilty heart, person, sorry, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting the blame on someone else» 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, person), 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 | 3 ease | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ease | aux |
| 3 | ease | ease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 5 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ease | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 needs | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 needs | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 blamed | nsubj |
| 12 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | acl:relcl |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 needs | advmod |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ease | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sorry | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 truth | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 truth | det |
| 19 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorry | conj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 truth | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ease | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ease | can | Confession | a guilty heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | blame | past | you | the person not said here | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | present | the person | your sorry and the truth | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sorry=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | participle | the truth not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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