--- title: Confession can ease a guilty heart, but the person you blamed still… — Putting the blame on someone else · tree and pragmatics description: Confession can ease a guilty heart, but the person you blamed still needs your sorry and the truth told. Who acts: Confession, you, person. 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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 (Confession, you, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:17 # text = Confession can ease a guilty heart, but the person you blamed still needs your sorry and the truth told. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.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 ×1 1 Confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 ease ease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 14 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ease** | can | Confession | a guilty heart | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 2 | **blame** | past | you | the person *not said here* | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 3 | **need** | present | the person | your sorry and the truth | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sorry=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | the truth *not said here* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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](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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:17`. **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 ×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: [Putting the blame on someone else, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/16/) - next →: [Putting the blame on someone else, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else/)