Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 4

Sorry also means trying to change, and the hurt person may need time before they can forgive, which is honest, not unkind.

Who acts: Sorry, hurt person, Christians · What happens: mean, try, change, need, forgive, be

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 (Sorry, hurt person, Christians), 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	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 means	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 change	mark
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 need	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 person	compound
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 need	aux
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	conj
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 forgive	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 forgive	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 forgive	aux
18	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 need	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 honest	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 honest	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 honest	cop
22	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forgive	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 unkind	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 unkind	advmod
25	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 honest	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Sorry			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	gerund	Sorry not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sorry not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	need	may	the hurt person	time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	forgive	can	Christians = christian			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	present			honest property	tree rules
7	not be					tree rules

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:4.

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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