--- title: Sorry also means trying to change, and the hurt person may need time… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics description: Sorry also means trying to change, and the hurt person may need time before they can forgive, which is honest, not unkind. Who acts: Sorry, hurt person, Christians. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/90-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Saying sorry and making amends: Zaccha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/90-saying-sorry-and-making-amends-zacchaeus-pays-back/) / 4 # Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 4 Sorry also means trying to change, and the hurt person may need time before they can forgive, which is honest, not unkind. **Who acts:** Sorry, hurt person, Christians · **What happens:** mean, try, change, need, forgive, be 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 (Sorry, hurt person, Christians), 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:4 # text = Sorry also means trying to change, and the hurt person may need time before they can forgive, which is honest, not unkind. # 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 ×1 1 Sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 hurt hurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 forgive forgive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sorry | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **try** *not said to happen* | gerund | Sorry *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **change** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sorry *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **need** | may | the hurt person | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **forgive** | can | Christians *= christian* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | honest *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×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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