Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 10
But each time, you must put it right.» Mum said the same in her own way, and added: «Habits change slowly — fewer silly friends, and more to do than to sit about idle.» Nathan said sorry to Mrs Doyle at her door, painted her porch with Dad over two Saturdays, and walked her dog after school for a month.
Who acts: you, Mum, Habits, Nathan · What happens: put, say, add, change, do, sit · To what, where: Forgiveness, same, own way, Mrs, porch, dog · 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 (you, Mum, Habits, Nathan), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 put | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 added | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 added | cc |
| 22 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 change | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 change | punct |
| 25 | Habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 change | nsubj |
| 26 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 added | ccomp |
| 27 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 26 change | advmod |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 friends | punct |
| 29 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 friends | amod |
| 30 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 friends | amod |
| 31 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 change | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 more | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 more | cc |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 friends | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 more | advcl |
| 37 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 39 sit | mark |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 sit | mark |
| 39 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 more | advcl |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 idle | case |
| 41 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sit | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 added | punct |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 45 said | punct |
| 44 | Nathan | Nathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 said | nsubj |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 46 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 said | xcomp |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Mrs | case |
| 48 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 said | obl |
| 49 | Doyle | Doyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Mrs | flat |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 door | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 door | nmod:poss |
| 52 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Mrs | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 painted | punct |
| 54 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 said | conj |
| 55 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 porch | nmod:poss |
| 56 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 painted | obj |
| 57 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 Dad | case |
| 58 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 painted | obl |
| 59 | over | over | ADP | _ | 61 Saturdays | case |
| 60 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 61 Saturdays | nummod |
| 61 | Saturdays | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 54 painted | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 walked | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 walked | cc |
| 64 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 painted | conj |
| 65 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 dog | nmod:poss |
| 66 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 walked | obj |
| 67 | after | after | ADP | _ | 68 school | case |
| 68 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 walked | obl |
| 69 | for | for | ADP | _ | 71 month | case |
| 70 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 71 month | det |
| 71 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 walked | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | must | you | Forgiveness | time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum | the same | Mum's own way | tree rules | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | change | present | Habits | slowly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Habits not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sit | to-infinitive | Habits not said here | about idle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about idle=Location | ||||
| 7 | say speech: apologize in a quote | past | Nathan | Mrs at Mum's door | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mrs=Recipient | |||
| 8 | paint in a quote | past | Nathan not said here | Mum's porch | saturday | with Dad | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent porch=Destination with dad=Theme | ||
| 9 | walk in a quote | past | Nathan not said here | Mum's dog | after school; month | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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