Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 15
"A confession that excuses itself is half a confession," says the vicar; "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord" (Psalm 32:5).
Who acts: confession, vicar, my · What happens: excuse, be, say, confess, transgress · To what, where: confession, transgressions, Lord · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» of the religion ethics 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 (confession, vicar, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 confession | det |
| 3 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 confession | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 excuses | nsubj |
| 5 | excuses | excuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 confession | acl:relcl |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 excuses | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 confession | cop |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 10 confession | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 confession | det |
| 10 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 confession | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 confession | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vicar | det |
| 15 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 confess | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 confess | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 confess | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 confess | aux |
| 20 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 transgressions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | transgressions | transgression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 confess | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Lord | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Lord | det |
| 25 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 confess | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Lord | punct |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 Psalm | punct |
| 28 | Psalm | Psalm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Lord | appos |
| 29 | 32:5 | 32:5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 Psalm | flat |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 Psalm | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse in a quote | present | a confession | confession | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a confession | half confession | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the vicar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | confess in a quote | future | the vicar = vicar | my transgressions | the Lord | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent transgression=Topic to lord=Recipient | |||
| 5 | transgress in a quote | my | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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