Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 18
Confession brings forgiveness and real relief, but it works only when you are honest, and it does not replace putting it right with the people you wronged.
Who acts: Confession, you · What happens: bring, work, be, not replace, put, wrong · To what, where: forgiveness, confession, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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), 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 | 2 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 relief | cc |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 relief | amod |
| 6 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgiveness | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 works | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 works | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 works | nsubj |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 brings | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 honest | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 honest | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 honest | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 honest | cop |
| 15 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 works | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 replace | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 replace | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 replace | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 replace | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 replace | advmod |
| 21 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brings | conj |
| 22 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 replace | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 putting | obj |
| 24 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 putting | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 putting | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 wronged | nsubj |
| 29 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 people | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Confession | forgiveness and real relief | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | present | confession | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not replace | present · do-support | confession | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | put | gerund | confession not said here | confession | with the people; right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 6 | wrong | past | you | the people not said here | tree rules |
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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:18.
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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