Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 6
The priest listened, said that God forgives him, gave him a small penance — a short prayer and one kind thing for the lollipop lady — and said «Now go and say sorry to her face».
Who acts: priest, God · What happens: listen, say, forgive, give, go · To what, where: priest, small penance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 forgives | mark |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forgives | nsubj |
| 8 | forgives | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgives | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgives | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 penance | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 penance | amod |
| 15 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgives | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 prayer | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prayer | amod |
| 19 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgives | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thing | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 thing | nummod |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prayer | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 lady | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 26 | lollipop | lollipop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lady | compound |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thing | nmod |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 32 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 go | advmod |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 say | cc |
| 35 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | conj |
| 36 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 say | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 face | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 face | nmod:poss |
| 39 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sorry | obl |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the priest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the priest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forgive | present | God | priest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | God not said here | a small penance | priest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient penance=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the priest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | say speech: apologize in a quote | infinitive | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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