Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 11
Scripture asks for both: confess the wrong and make it good (Numbers 5:6-7); a new pen without a sorry is only half.
Who acts: Scripture, new pen · What happens: ask, confess, make, be · To what, where: wrong, half
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 (Scripture, new pen), 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 | Scripture | scripture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 both | case |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 asks | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 confess | punct |
| 6 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wrong | det |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confess | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 confess | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Numbers | punct |
| 14 | Numbers | Numbers | PROPN | _ | 6 confess | parataxis |
| 15 | 5:6-7 | 5:6-7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Numbers | flat |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Numbers | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 half | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pen | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pen | amod |
| 20 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 half | nsubj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 sorry | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sorry | det |
| 23 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pen | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 half | cop |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 half | advmod |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 asks | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Scripture | for both | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | confess | infinitive | the wrong | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | wrong | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a new pen without a sorry | half | 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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:11.
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, 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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