Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 14
Catholics and Orthodox confess to a priest, who speaks God's forgiveness and must never tell anyone (the seal of confession); all Christians confess to God: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us" (1 John 1:9).
Who acts: Catholics, priest, Christians, we, sorry · What happens: confess, speak, not tell, be, forgive · To what, where: priest, forgiveness, anyone, God, sins, us · 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 (Catholics, priest, Christians, we), 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 | Catholics | Catholic | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 confess | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Orthodox | cc |
| 3 | Orthodox | Orthodox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Catholics | conj |
| 4 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 priest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confess | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaks | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 speaks | nsubj |
| 10 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 priest | acl:relcl |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 forgiveness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 God | case |
| 13 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaks | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tell | cc |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 tell | advmod |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 speaks | conj |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 tell | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 seal | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seal | det |
| 21 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anyone | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 confession | case |
| 23 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seal | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 seal | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 confess | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 Christians | det |
| 27 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 confess | nsubj |
| 28 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confess | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 God | case |
| 30 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 confess | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 confess | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 confess | punct |
| 33 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 confess | mark |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 confess | nsubj |
| 35 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 faithful | advcl |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sins | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 confess | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 faithful | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 faithful | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 faithful | cop |
| 41 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 confess | ccomp |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 forgive | cc |
| 43 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 forgive | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 forgive | cc |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 forgive | aux |
| 46 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 faithful | conj |
| 47 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 forgive | obj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 forgive | punct |
| 49 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 50 1 | punct |
| 50 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 faithful | obl |
| 51 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 52 | 1:9 | 1:9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 50 1 | flat |
| 53 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 50 1 | punct |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confess | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | present | Catholics and Orthodox | a priest | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to priest=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | a priest | God's forgiveness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | must | a priest not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | confess | present | all Christians | God | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | confess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | our sins | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | sorry | 1 John obl; faithful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | forgive in a quote | future | sorry not said here | us | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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:14.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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