--- title: Catholics and Orthodox confess to a priest, who speaks God's forgive… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics description: Catholics and Orthodox confess to a priest, who speaks God's forgiveness and must never tell anyone (the seal of confession); all Christians confess to God: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us" (1 John 1:9). Who acts: Catholics, priest, Christians, we. 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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 (Catholics, priest, Christians, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:14 # text = Catholics and Orthodox confess to a priest, who speaks God's forgiveness and must never tell anyone (the seal of confession); all Christians confess to God: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us" (1 John 1:9). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Catholics Catholic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Orthodox Orthodox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 confess confess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 priest priest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 forgiveness forgiveness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 confession confession NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 Christians Christian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 28 confess confess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 If if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 confess confess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 36 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sins sin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 47 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 50 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 obl _ _ 51 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod:unmarked _ _ 52 1:9 1:9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 50 flat _ _ 53 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confess** | present | Catholics and Orthodox | | a priest | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to priest=Recipient | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | a priest | God's forgiveness | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | must | a priest *not said here* | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 4 | **confess** | present | all Christians | | God | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient | | 5 | **confess** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we | our sins | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sorry | | | | | 1 John *obl*; faithful *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **forgive** *in a quote* | future | sorry *not said here* | us | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | 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:090-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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