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title: contrition — Judaism dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «contrition» in the Judaism dictionary: deep sorrow and regret for wrongdoing. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# contrition

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**Who acts:** Thou, ye · **What happens:** regret, turn, say, child · **To what, where:** man, contrition, Return · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«contrition» in the Judaism dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 1 example, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [contrition in the Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/contrition.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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deep sorrow and regret for wrongdoing.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:contrition:m1:1
# text = deep sorrow and regret for wrongdoing.
1	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	regret	regret	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regret** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for wrongdoing | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for wrongdoing=Attribute |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.' (Writings PSA.90.3, JPS 1917)

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*Sentence 1:* Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:contrition:x1:1
# text = Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turnest	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	contrition	contrition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sayest	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Thou | man |  | contrition |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme to contrition=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Thou *not said here* | Return |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent return=Topic |
| 3 | **child** |  | ye |  |  |  |  | of men | tree rules |

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*Sentence 2:* (Writings PSA.90.3, JPS 1917)

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:judaism:contrition:x1:2
# text = (Writings PSA.90.3, JPS 1917)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	PSA.90.3	PSA.90.3	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	JPS	JPS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	1917	1917	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the Judaism dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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