--- title: A week later the brother couldn't stand it and confessed. — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics description: A week later the brother couldn't stand it and confessed. Who acts: brother. A sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Forgiving](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/) / 17 # Forgiving, sentence 17 A week later the brother couldn't stand it and confessed. **Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** not stand, confess · **To what, where:** telly This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgiving» 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 (brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:454-forgiving.lesson:17 # text = A week later the brother couldn't stand it and confessed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 454-forgiving.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 confessed confess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stand** | could | the brother | telly | | | | late *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **confess** | past | the brother *not said here* | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: 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:454-forgiving.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): no change. **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: [Forgiving, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/16/) - next →: [Forgiving, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/454-forgiving/)