Forgiving, sentence 40
Forgiving means choosing not to keep punishing someone; it does not mean saying what they did was okay.
Who acts: means, truth · What happens: forgive, choose, not keep, punish, not mean, say · To what, where: means, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (means, truth), 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 | Forgiving | forgive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | means | means | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Forgiving | obj |
| 3 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | acl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 keep | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 choosing | xcomp |
| 7 | punishing | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 punishing | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mean | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mean | advmod |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Forgiving | conj |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 mean | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 did | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 okay | csubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 okay | cop |
| 19 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forgiving | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | gerund | means | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent means=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | gerund | means not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not keep | to-infinitive | means not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | punish | gerund | means not said here | someone | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not mean | present · do-support | truth | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | truth not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | do | past | means | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | is | past | okay property | 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:454-forgiving.lesson:40.
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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