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title: Christians are called to forgive as they are forgiven (Matthew 6:12;… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians are called to forgive as they are forgiven (Matthew 6:12; Colossians 3:13), but forgiveness can be a journey and does not mean pretending you are not hurt. Who acts: forgiveness. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics course o
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 16

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Christians are called to forgive as they are forgiven (Matthew 6:12; Colossians 3:13), but forgiveness can be a journey and does not mean pretending you are not hurt.

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**Who acts:** forgiveness · **What happens:** call, forgive, be, not mean, pretend, not hurt · **To what, where:** Christians, journey, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» 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 (forgiveness), 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:16
# text = Christians are called to forgive as they are forgiven (Matthew 6:12; Colossians 3:13), but forgiveness can be a journey and does not mean pretending you are not hurt.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forgiven	forgive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:dep
12	6:12	6:12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Colossians	Colossians	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:dep
15	3:13	3:13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Christians |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forgive** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forgive** | present · passive |  | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | can | forgiveness | a journey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | forgiveness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **pretend** *not said to happen* | gerund | forgiveness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **hurt** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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