Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 8

Old guilt is guilt about something long ago that was never told; it often returns at random moments for months or years.

Who acts: Old guilt, guilt · What happens: be, not tell, return · To what, where: guilt · 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 (Old guilt, guilt), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 guilt	amod
2	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guilt	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilt	cop
4	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 guilt	nmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 something	advmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 told	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 told	advmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 something	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 returns	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 returns	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 returns	advmod
16	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilt	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 moments	case
18	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moments	amod
19	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 returns	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 months	case
21	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 returns	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 years	cc
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 months	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guilt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Old guilt	guilt		about something	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	past · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	return	present	guilt		moment; month	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:8.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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