Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 11
Saying something unkind in a moment does not define a whole relationship, but it is good to say sorry while you can.
Who acts: Saying · What happens: say, not define, be · To what, where: something, whole relationship, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection 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 (Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 define | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saying | obl |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 define | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 define | advmod |
| 9 | define | define | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 relationship | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 relationship | amod |
| 12 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 define | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 good | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 define | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 good | csubj |
| 20 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 say | obj |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sorry | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 define | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | something | moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not define | present · do-support | Saying | a whole relationship | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relationship=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Saying not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
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:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:11.
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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