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title: Christians believe God forgives completely, removing sins "as far as… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Christians believe God forgives completely, removing sins "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12), but they also believe in putting things right with the people you hurt. Who acts: Christians, God, you. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of th
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 3

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Christians believe God forgives completely, removing sins "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12), but they also believe in putting things right with the people you hurt.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God, you · **What happens:** believe, forgive, remove, be, put, hurt · **To what, where:** sins, west, things, people · **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 (Christians, God, you), 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:3
# text = Christians believe God forgives completely, removing sins "as far as the east is from the west" (Psalm 103:12), but they also believe in putting things right with the people you 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	forgives	forgive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
8	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:appos
22	103:12	103:12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	right	right	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **forgive** | present | God |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **remove** | gerund | God *not said here* | sins |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the west |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **believe** | present | Christians *= christian* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **put** | gerund | Christians *= christian* *not said here* | things |  |  |  | with the people; right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |
| 7 | **hurt** | past | you | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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