Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 20
In confession a person tells their sins honestly to a priest, who gives absolution and usually a small penance, like a prayer.
Who acts: person, priest · What happens: tell, give · To what, where: sins, priest, confession, absolution · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (person, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 confession | case |
| 2 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | nsubj |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sins | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tells | obj |
| 8 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 5 tells | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 priest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 priest | det |
| 11 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gives | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gives | nsubj |
| 14 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 priest | acl:relcl |
| 15 | absolution | absolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 penance | cc |
| 17 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 penance | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 penance | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 penance | amod |
| 20 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 absolution | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prayer | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 prayer | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 prayer | det |
| 24 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 penance | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tells | 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 | present | a person | people's sins | a priest | confession | honestly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sin=Topic to priest=Recipient | |
| 2 | give | present | a priest | absolution and a small penance like a prayer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absolution=Theme |
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:20.
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. 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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