--- title: Ben and his big brother had blamed each other for years; one day the… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics description: Ben and his big brother had blamed each other for years; one day they made a pact: «No more blaming. Who acts: Ben. A sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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/455-trusting-again/21/) [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/) / [Trusting again](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/) / 21 # Trusting again, sentence 21 Ben and his big brother had blamed each other for years; one day they made a pact: «No more blaming. **Who acts:** Ben · **What happens:** blame, make · **To what, where:** other, pact This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusting again» 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 (Ben), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:21 # text = Ben and his big brother had blamed each other for years; one day they made a pact: «No more blaming. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 455-trusting-again.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pact pact NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 No no ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 23 blaming blame VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | past · perfect | Ben and Oisin's big brother | each other | | | year | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | Ben | a pact | | | day | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pact=Product | | 3 | **blame** *in a quote* | gerund | Ben *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: 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:455-trusting-again.lesson:21`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Trusting again, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/20/) - next →: [Trusting again, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/)