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title: In the end he owned up to all of it, went to confession, said sorry… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: In the end he owned up to all of it, went to confession, said sorry to the churchwarden (a helper who looks after the church) and paid for a new hymn book from his pocket money. Who acts: Nathan, helper. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 1

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In the end he owned up to all of it, went to confession, said sorry to the churchwarden (a helper who looks after the church) and paid for a new hymn book from his pocket money.

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**Who acts:** Nathan, helper · **What happens:** own up, go, say, look, pay · **To what, where:** end, confession, sorry, churchwarden, pocket money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday 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 (Nathan, helper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:1
# text = In the end he owned up to all of it, went to confession, said sorry to the churchwarden (a helper who looks after the church) and paid for a new hymn book from his pocket money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	churchwarden	churchwarden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | past | Nathan |  |  |  | in the end | to all | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **go** | past | Nathan *not said here* |  |  | confession |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to confession=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Nathan *not said here* | sorry | the churchwarden |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to churchwarden=Recipient |
| 4 | **look** | present | a helper |  |  |  | after the church |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pay** | past | Nathan *not said here* |  |  | Nathan's pocket money |  | for a new hymn book | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for book=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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