--- title: Being forgiven in confession does not mean a person will never do wr… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics description: Being forgiven in confession does not mean a person will never do wrong again; most people slip back sometimes. Who acts: person, most people. 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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 (person, most people), 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:19 # text = Being forgiven in confession does not mean a person will never do wrong again; most people slip back sometimes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Being be AUX VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 aux:pass _ _ 2 forgiven forgive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 14 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 19 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **forgive** | gerund · passive | | | | confession | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **do** | future | a person | | | | again | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **slip back** | present | most people | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:19`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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