Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 0
Saying sorry starts putting things right; making amends finishes it, by fixing, replacing or paying back what you damaged.
Who acts: Saying, making, you · What happens: say, start, put, make, finish, fix · To what, where: sorry, things, amends, it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (Saying, making, 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 starts | csubj |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 starts | obj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 starts | xcomp |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 putting | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 putting | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 finishes | csubj |
| 9 | amends | amends | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 making | obj |
| 10 | finishes | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 starts | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finishes | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fixing | punct |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 fixing | mark |
| 14 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 finishes | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replacing | punct |
| 16 | replacing | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fixing | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 paying | cc |
| 18 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fixing | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADP | _ | 18 paying | compound:prt |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 damaged | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 damaged | nsubj |
| 22 | damaged | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 paying | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | start | present | Saying | sorry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | gerund | Saying not said here | things | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | |||
| 4 | make | gerund | amends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amends=Product | |||||
| 5 | finish | present | making | it | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | fix | gerund | making not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | replace | gerund | making not said here | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | pay back | gerund | making not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | damage | past | you | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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