Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 8
A good apology names what you did, says sorry, shows you understand the hurt, offers to fix it and promises to change.
Who acts: good apology, you · What happens: name, do, say, show, understand, offer · To what, where: sorry, hurt, apology · 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 (good apology, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apology | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apology | amod |
| 3 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 names | nsubj |
| 4 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 did | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | conj |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 understand | nsubj |
| 14 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shows | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hurt | det |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 understand | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 offers | punct |
| 18 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 fix | mark |
| 20 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 offers | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fix | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 promises | cc |
| 23 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 change | mark |
| 25 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 promises | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 names | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present | a good apology | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a good apology not said here | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | ||||
| 4 | show | present | a good apology not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | understand | present | you | the hurt | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hurt=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | offer | present | a good apology not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fix not said to happen | to-infinitive | a good apology not said here | apology | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | promise speech: promise | present | a good apology not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | change not said to happen | to-infinitive | a good apology not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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