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title: "Rend your heart and not your garments" (Joel 2:13): in Bible times… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Rend your heart and not your garments" (Joel 2:13): in Bible times sad people tore (rent) their clothes to show sorrow, but God wants sorrow inside, not only words or torn clothes. Who acts: you, sad people, God. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the 
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 6

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"Rend your heart and not your garments" (Joel 2:13): in Bible times sad people tore (rent) their clothes to show sorrow, but God wants sorrow inside, not only words or torn clothes.

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**Who acts:** you, sad people, God · **What happens:** rend, tore, show, want, tear · **To what, where:** heart, sorrow · **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 (you, sad people, God), 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:6
# text = "Rend your heart and not your garments" (Joel 2:13): in Bible times sad people tore (rent) their clothes to show sorrow, but God wants sorrow inside, not only words or torn clothes.
# 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	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Rend	rend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Joel	Joel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
12	2:13	2:13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
18	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rent	rend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
28	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
38	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	38	conj	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **rend** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your heart and your garments |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tore** | past | sad people |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rend** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Recipient |
| 5 | **want** | present | God | sorrow and words or torn clothes |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sorrow=Theme |
| 6 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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