--- title: On Saturday he went to confession at church: «Bless me, Father, for… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: On Saturday he went to confession at church: «Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.» The priest listened, gave him absolution (forgiveness in God's name) and a small penance (a short prayer or task to show he is sorry), and he walked out feeling light, the weight gone. Who acts: Owen, priest, God. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, priest, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:11 # text = On Saturday he went to confession at church: «Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.» The priest listened, gave him absolution (forgiveness in God's name) and a small penance (a short prayer or task to show he is sorry), and he walked out feeling light, the weight gone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 336-little-lies-at-home.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 Bless bless VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 vocative _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 sinned sin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 absolution absolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 penance penance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl _ _ 48 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 cop _ _ 50 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 ccomp _ _ 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 56 out out ADP RP _ 55 compound:prt _ _ 57 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 55 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=55:xcomp 58 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 xcomp _ _ 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=62:det 61 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 62 gone gone NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Owen | | | church | saturday | to confession | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Owen | | | | Father *vocative* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **sin** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Owen | | | | | | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** | past | the priest | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** | past | the priest *not said here* | absolution and a small penance | Owen | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient absolution=Theme | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | the priest *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | Owen | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **walk out** | past | Owen | | | | | | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **feel** | gerund | Owen *not said here* | weight gone | | | | light *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 10 | **name** | | God | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Little lies at home, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/10/) - next →: [Little lies at home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)