Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 6

Guilt after letting someone down is the conscience pointing at what matters; it usually fades into a lesson once you try to put things right.

Who acts: Guilt, conscience pointing, you · What happens: let down, be, matter, fade, try, put · To what, where: someone, conscience pointing, 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 pointing, 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	Guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointing	nsubj
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 letting	mark
3	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Guilt	acl
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 letting	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 letting	compound:prt
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pointing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 conscience	det
8	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pointing	compound
9	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 matters	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 matters	nsubj
12	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pointing	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fades	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fades	nsubj
15	usually	usually	ADV	_	16 fades	advmod
16	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pointing	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 lesson	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lesson	det
19	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fades	obl
20	once	once	SCONJ	_	22 try	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 try	nsubj
22	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fades	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 try	xcomp
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
26	right	right	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pointing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let down	gerund	Guilt not said here	someone			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	is a	present	Guilt	conscience pointing			tree rules
3	matter	present	conscience pointing				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	fade	present	guilt		a lesson	usually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	try	present	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	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:6.

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. 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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