Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 16
Christians are called to forgive as they are forgiven (Matthew 6:12; Colossians 3:13), but forgiveness can be a journey and does not mean pretending you are not hurt.
Who acts: forgiveness · What happens: call, forgive, be, not mean, pretend, not hurt · To what, where: Christians, journey, you · 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 (forgiveness), 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 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 forgive | mark |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 forgiven | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgiven | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forgiven | aux:pass |
| 9 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 forgive | advcl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Matthew | punct |
| 11 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | parataxis |
| 12 | 6:12 | 6:12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Matthew | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Colossians | punct |
| 14 | Colossians | Colossians | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Matthew | conj |
| 15 | 3:13 | 3:13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Colossians | flat |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Matthew | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 journey | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 journey | cc |
| 19 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 journey | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 journey | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 journey | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 journey | det |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mean | cc |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 mean | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 mean | advmod |
| 27 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 journey | conj |
| 28 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 mean | xcomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 hurt | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 hurt | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 hurt | advmod |
| 32 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 pretending | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Christians | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | forgive | to-infinitive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | forgive | present · passive | Christians = christian | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | can | forgiveness | a journey | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not mean | present · do-support | forgiveness not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | pretend not said to happen | gerund | forgiveness not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not hurt | present · passive | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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