--- title: "A confession that excuses itself is half a confession," says the vi… — Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library… · tree and pragmatics description: "A confession that excuses itself is half a confession," says the vicar; "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord" (Psalm 32:5). Who acts: confession, vicar, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confession, vicar, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:15 # text = "A confession that excuses itself is half a confession," says the vicar; "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord" (Psalm 32:5). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 excuses excuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 10 det:predet _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 transgressions transgression NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Psalm Psalm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 32:5 32:5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 flat _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **excuse** *in a quote* | present | a confession | confession | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a confession | half confession | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **confess** *in a quote* | future | the vicar *= vicar* | my transgressions | the Lord | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent transgression=Topic to lord=Recipient | | 5 | **transgress** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=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:religion-ethics:089-owning-up-the-broken-vase-and-the-lost-library-book.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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