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title: An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reco… — Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays b… · tree and pragmatics
description: An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reconciled first (Matthew 5:23-24). Who acts: apology, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Saying sorry and making amends: Zacchaeus pays back, sentence 7

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An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reconciled first (Matthew 5:23-24).

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**Who acts:** apology, Jesus · **What happens:** be, say, go, reconcile · **To what, where:** meeting · **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 (apology, Jesus), 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:7
# text = An apology is a meeting, not a message: Jesus said to go and be reconciled first (Matthew 5:23-24).
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	reconciled	reconcile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
18	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:dep
21	5:23-24	5:23-24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a apology | a meeting |  |  |  | a message *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reconcile** | infinitive · passive | Jesus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |

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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, 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.

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

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