Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book, sentence 17

People forgive faster when you tell them than when they discover it themselves; "Confess your sins to each other" (James 5:16).

Who acts: People, you · What happens: forgive, tell, discover, confess · To what, where: people, gift, sins · 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 (People, 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgive	nsubj
2	forgive	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 forgive	advmod
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 forgive	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 discover	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 discover	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 discover	nsubj
11	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 discover	obj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	11 discover	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Confess	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Confess	punct
16	Confess	confess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 forgive	parataxis
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sins	nmod:poss
18	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Confess	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	16 Confess	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Confess	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 James	punct
24	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Confess	parataxis
25	5:16	5:16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 James	flat
26	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 James	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgive	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	forgive	present	People			fast property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	you		people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	discover	present	people	gift		people obl	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	confess in a quote	infinitive		your sins		to each	tree rules

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:17.

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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