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title: Nathan went to confession again, ashamed that he was back so soon. — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: Nathan went to confession again, ashamed that he was back so soon. Who acts: Nathan. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 7

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Nathan went to confession again, ashamed that he was back so soon.

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**Who acts:** Nathan · **What happens:** go, asham, be · **To what, where:** confession

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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), 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:7
# text = Nathan went to confession again, ashamed that he was back so soon.
# 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 ×2
1	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | past | Nathan |  |  | confession | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to confession=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **asham** | participle | Nathan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Nathan |  |  |  |  | back *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:7`.

**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 ×2. **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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