Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 19

Blaming someone who cannot speak up, like a two-year-old, is unfair; owning up and helping fix it ends the guilt.

Who acts: Blaming, owning · What happens: blame, not speak up, be, own up, help, fix · To what, where: someone, up, guilt

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 (Blaming, owning), 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	Blaming	blame	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 unfair	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Blaming	obj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 speak	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 someone	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 speak	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 someone	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	15 old	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 old	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 year	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 two	punct
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 old	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 year	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 someone	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Blaming	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 unfair	cop
18	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 unfair	punct
20	owning	own	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ends	csubj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 owning	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 helping	cc
23	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 owning	conj
24	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 helping	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fix	obj
26	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 unfair	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 guilt	det
28	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ends	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 unfair	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund		someone	like a year old	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	not speak up speech: other	can				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Blaming		unfair property	tree rules
4	own up	gerund				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	help	gerund				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	fix	infinitive		up		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	end	present	owning	the guilt		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality guilt=Eventuality

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:19.

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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