Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 8

Josh told it at confession, felt lighter afterwards, and then did what the priest asked: said sorry to the boy and stopped others doing it.

Who acts: Josh, priest · What happens: tell, feel, do, ask, say, stop · To what, where: face, confession, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» 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 (Josh, priest), 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	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 confession	case
5	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
8	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 felt	xcomp
9	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 felt	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 did	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 did	advmod
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 asked	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 priest	det
16	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 did	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
20	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 boy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sorry	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stopped	cc
25	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stopped	obj
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger	25 stopped	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doing	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 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	Josh		face	confession			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	feel	past	Josh not said here					afterwards, light property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	do	past	Josh not said here				then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	the priest						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
5	say speech: apologize	past						sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	stop	past		others					tree rules
7	do	gerund		face					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:8.

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 ×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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