Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 13

Freya said she had said her prayers when she hadn't; when Mum asked what she had prayed for, she could not answer and owned up.

Who acts: Freya, Mum · What happens: say, ask, pray, not answer, own up · To what, where: prayers · 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 (Freya, Mum), 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	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prayers	nmod:poss
7	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 had	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 had	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 asked	advmod
14	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 answer	advcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 prayed	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 prayed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 prayed	aux
19	prayed	pray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 asked	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	19 prayed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 answer	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 answer	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 answer	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 answer	advmod
25	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 owned	cc
27	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 answer	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 owned	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Freya		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Freya	Freya's prayers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	Mum		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pray	past · perfect	Mum		tree rules
5	not answer speech: assert	could	Mum		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	own up	past	Mum not said here		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
7	pray		Freya		nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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