Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 4

The guilt is not there to punish you forever: it is your conscience pointing at what matters, like real friends, kept promises and kept secrets, and it usually fades into a lesson once you have tried to put things right.

Who acts: guilt, conscience, you · What happens: not be, be, point, matter, keep, fade · To what, where: conscience, lesson, things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» 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 (guilt, conscience, 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	2 guilt	det
2	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 punish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 punish	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 punish	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 punish	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 punish	mark
7	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 punish	obj
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 punish	advmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 conscience	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 conscience	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 conscience	cop
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 conscience	nmod:poss
14	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 punish	parataxis
15	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 conscience	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 pointing	obl
18	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 friends	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 friends	case
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 friends	amod
22	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 conscience	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 promises	punct
24	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 promises	amod
25	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 conscience	appos
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 secrets	cc
27	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 secrets	amod
28	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 promises	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fades	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fades	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fades	nsubj
32	usually	usually	ADV	_	33 fades	advmod
33	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 punish	advcl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 lesson	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 lesson	det
36	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fades	obl
37	once	once	SCONJ	_	40 tried	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 tried	nsubj
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 tried	aux
40	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 fades	advcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 put	mark
42	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 tried	xcomp
43	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 put	obj
44	right	right	ADV	_	42 put	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 punish	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the guilt		there	forever, punish property	tree rules
2	is a	present	guilt	your conscience and real friends			tree rules
3	point	gerund	your conscience and real friends not said here		your conscience and real friends		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	matter	present					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	keep	participle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	keep	participle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	fade	present	guilt		a lesson	usually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	try	present · perfect	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	things		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal

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:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:4.

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 ×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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