Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 17
Putting right an old wrong still matters, especially when someone else took the blame (Exodus 20:16; Luke 19:8).
Who acts: old wrong, someone · What happens: put, matter, take · To what, where: blame
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 (old wrong, someone), 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 | Putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 matters | csubj |
| 2 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Putting | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wrong | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wrong | amod |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matters | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 matters | advmod |
| 7 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 took | advmod |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 took | nsubj |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 someone | advmod |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 matters | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blame | det |
| 15 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Exodus | punct |
| 17 | Exodus | exodus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blame | appos |
| 18 | 20:16 | 20:16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Exodus | flat |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 19:8 | punct |
| 20 | Luke | Luke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 19:8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | 19:8 | 19:8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 took | obl |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 19:8 | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | a old wrong | still | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | someone | the blame | 19:8 Luke obl; especially property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=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:17.
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. 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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