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title: Forgiving can mean letting go of anger for your own sake, even witho… — Forgiving · tree and pragmatics
description: Forgiving can mean letting go of anger for your own sake, even without a sorry. Who acts: Forgiving. 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.
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# Forgiving, sentence 48

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Forgiving can mean letting go of anger for your own sake, even without a sorry.

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**Who acts:** Forgiving · **What happens:** forgive, mean, let, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Forgiving), 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:48
# text = Forgiving can mean letting go of anger for your own sake, even without a sorry.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Forgiving	forgive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **forgive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | can | Forgiving |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *not said to happen* | gerund | Forgiving *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your own sake; without a sorry | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | Forgiving *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of anger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of anger=Initial\_Location |

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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:454-forgiving.lesson:48`.

**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.

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

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