Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 3
Christians believe God forgives completely, removing sins "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12), but they also believe in putting things right with the people you hurt.
Who acts: Christians, God, you · What happens: believe, forgive, remove, be, put, hurt · To what, where: sins, west, things, people · 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 (Christians, God, you), 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 | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forgives | nsubj |
| 4 | forgives | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | ccomp |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 forgives | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 removing | punct |
| 7 | removing | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 forgives | advcl |
| 8 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 removing | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 far | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 far | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 removing | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 east | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 east | det |
| 14 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 far | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 west | cop |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 west | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 west | det |
| 18 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 removing | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 west | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Psalm | punct |
| 21 | Psalm | Psalm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 22 | 103:12 | 103:12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Psalm | flat |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Psalm | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 believe | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 believe | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 believe | nsubj |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 believe | advmod |
| 28 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | conj |
| 29 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 30 putting | mark |
| 30 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 believe | advcl |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 putting | obj |
| 32 | right | right | ADV | _ | 30 putting | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 putting | obl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 hurt | nsubj |
| 37 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 people | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | forgive | present | God | completely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remove | gerund | God not said here | sins | far property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the west | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | believe | present | Christians = christian | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | put | gerund | Christians = christian not said here | things | with the people; right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | |||
| 7 | hurt | past | you | the people not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=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:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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