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title: Zacchaeus told Jesus, "If I have cheated anybody out of anything, I… — Trust that breaks and takes long to mend · tree and pragmatics
description: Zacchaeus told Jesus, "If I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount" (Luke 19:8-9): making amends in deeds earns trust back. Who acts: Zacchaeus, making. A sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» of the religion ethics course of Mova's pr
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# Trust that breaks and takes long to mend, sentence 17

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Zacchaeus told Jesus, "If I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount" (Luke 19:8-9): making amends in deeds earns trust back.

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**Who acts:** Zacchaeus, making · **What happens:** tell, cheat, pay back, make, earn back · **To what, where:** Jesus, anybody, anything, amount, amends, deeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trust that breaks and takes long to mend» 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 (Zacchaeus, making), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.lesson:17
# text = Zacchaeus told Jesus, "If I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount" (Luke 19:8-9): making amends in deeds earns trust back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 082-trust-that-breaks-and-takes-long-to-mend.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
6	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
10	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod:unmarked
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
26	19:8-9	19:8-9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	csubj	_	_
30	amends	amends	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	earns	earn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
34	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Zacchaeus |  | Jesus |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jesus=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cheat** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | Zacchaeus | anybody |  | anything |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Source |
| 3 | **pay back** *in a quote* | future | Zacchaeus | the amount |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | amends |  | deeds |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amends=Product |
| 5 | **earn back** | present | making | trust |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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.

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