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Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 5

On Saturday he went to confession; the priest listened, gave absolution and a small penance, and Archie felt the knot in his chest loosen.

Who acts: boy, priest, Archie, knot · What happens: go, listen, give, feel, loosen · To what, where: confession, absolution, knot, chest

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 (boy, priest, Archie, knot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

caseoblnsubjcaseoblpunctdetnsubjparataxispunctconjobjccdetamodconjpunctccnsubjparataxisdetobjcasenmod:possoblxcomppunctrootOnADPSaturdayPROPNhePRONwentVERBtoADPconfessionNOUN;PUNCTtheDETpriestNOUNlistenedVERB,PUNCTgaveVERBabsolutionNOUNandCCONJaDETsmallADJpenanceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJArchiePROPNfeltVERBtheDETknotNOUNinADPhisPRONchestNOUNloosenVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_2 Saturdaycase
2SaturdaySaturdayPROPNNumber=Sing4 wentobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_6 confessioncase
6confessionconfessionNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentobl
7;;PUNCT_12 gavepunct
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 priestdet
9priestpriestNOUNNumber=Sing10 listenednsubj
10listenedlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentparataxis
11,,PUNCT_12 gavepunct
12gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 listenedconj
13absolutionabsolutionNOUNNumber=Sing12 gaveobj
14andandCCONJ_17 penancecc
15aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 penancedet
16smallsmallADJDegree=Pos17 penanceamod
17penancepenanceNOUNNumber=Sing13 absolutionconj
18,,PUNCT_21 feltpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 feltcc
20ArchieArchiePROPNNumber=Sing21 feltnsubj
21feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentparataxis
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 knotdet
23knotknotNOUNNumber=Sing21 feltobj
24ininADP_26 chestcase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 chestnmod:poss
26chestchestNOUNNumber=Sing21 feltobl
27loosenloosenVERBVerbForm=Inf21 feltxcomp
28..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastboyconfessionsaturdayvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to confession=Initial_Location
2listenpastthe priestvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3givepastthe priest not said hereabsolution and a small penancevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absolution=Theme
4feelpastArchiethe knotArchie's chesttree rules
5looseninfinitivethe knot not said herevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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, 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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