Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 12
The New Testament word for repentance, metanoia, means a change of mind and direction; a sorry repeated every day without change is not real.
Who acts: New Testament word, sorry, mind · What happens: mean, repeat, not be, change · To what, where: change
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 (New Testament word, sorry, mind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 2 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 word | amod |
| 3 | Testament | testament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 word | compound |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 repentance | case |
| 6 | repentance | repentance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 word | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 metanoia | punct |
| 8 | metanoia | metanoia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repentance | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 change | det |
| 12 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mind | case |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 direction | cc |
| 16 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mind | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sorry | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sorry | det |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 real | nsubj |
| 20 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sorry | acl |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 repeated | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 change | case |
| 24 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 repeated | obl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 real | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 real | advmod |
| 27 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the New Testament word for repentance and metanoia | a change of mind and direction | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | day | without change | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | a sorry | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | change | mind and direction | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:12.
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): 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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