Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted, sentence 32
The other person decides whether to accept a sorry; you cannot force forgiveness.
Who acts: other person, you · What happens: decide, accept, not force · To what, where: sorry, forgiveness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry, and the sorry that is not accepted» 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 (other person, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decides | nsubj |
| 4 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 7 accept | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 accept | mark |
| 7 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decides | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sorry | det |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accept | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 decides | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 force | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 force | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 force | advmod |
| 14 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decides | parataxis |
| 15 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 force | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decides | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | the other person | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other person not said here | a sorry | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not force | can | you | forgiveness | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient |
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:477-saying-sorry-and-the-sorry-that-is-not-accepted.lesson:32.
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): 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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