Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 10
Joseph forgave them: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20).
Who acts: Joseph, You, God · What happens: forgive, intend, harm · To what, where: brothers, hurt · 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 (Joseph, You, God), 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 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 forgave | nsubj |
| 2 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 forgave | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 intended | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 intended | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 intended | nsubj |
| 7 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 forgave | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 harm | mark |
| 9 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 intended | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 harm | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intended | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 intended | cc |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 intended | nsubj |
| 14 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 intended | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 intended | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 good | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 intended | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Genesis | punct |
| 20 | Genesis | Genesis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 intended | obl |
| 21 | 50:20 | 50:20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 Genesis | flat |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 Genesis | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past | Joseph | brothers = brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | intend in a quote | past | You | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | harm not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | brothers = brother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | intend in a quote | past | God | hurt | for good; Genesis obl | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:10.
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, 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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