--- title: Repentance means turning back: being sorry and changing direction. — Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son a… · tree and pragmatics description: Repentance means turning back: being sorry and changing direction. Who acts: Repentance. A sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prod…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/) / 17 # Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep, sentence 17 Repentance means turning back: being sorry and changing direction. **Who acts:** Repentance · **What happens:** mean, turn back, be, change · **To what, where:** direction This is a sentence of the lesson «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep» of the religion ethics 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 (Repentance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.lesson:17 # text = Repentance means turning back: being sorry and changing direction. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.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 ×1 1 Repentance repentance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 7 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 10 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Repentance | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **turn back** *not said to happen* | gerund | Repentance *not said here* | | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | gerund | Repentance *not said here* | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **change** | gerund | Repentance *not said here* | direction | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient | 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:religion-ethics:014-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep.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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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: [Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prod…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/16/) - next →: [Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/14-parables-good-samaritan-prodigal-son-lost-sheep/)