Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 1
In the end he owned up to all of it, went to confession, said sorry to the churchwarden (a helper who looks after the church) and paid for a new hymn book from his pocket money.
Who acts: Nathan, helper · What happens: own up, go, say, look, pay · To what, where: end, confession, sorry, churchwarden, pocket money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 (Nathan, helper), 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 | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owned | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 owned | nsubj |
| 5 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 owned | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 owned | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 all | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 owned | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 confession | case |
| 14 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 churchwarden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 churchwarden | det |
| 20 | churchwarden | churchwarden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 helper | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 helper | det |
| 23 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 churchwarden | appos |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 looks | nsubj |
| 25 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 helper | acl:relcl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 church | det |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looks | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 helper | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 paid | cc |
| 31 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 book | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 book | det |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 book | amod |
| 35 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 book | compound |
| 36 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 paid | obl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 money | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 money | nmod:poss |
| 39 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 money | compound | ||
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 paid | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | past | Nathan | in the end | to all | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | go | past | Nathan not said here | confession | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to confession=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Nathan not said here | sorry | the churchwarden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to churchwarden=Recipient | |||
| 4 | look | present | a helper | after the church | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pay | past | Nathan not said here | Nathan's pocket money | for a new hymn book | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for book=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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:1.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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