Funerals and remembering, sentence 12
Cremation means the body is burned in a crematorium until only ashes are left; the dead person cannot feel anything.
Who acts: Cremation, dead person · What happens: mean, burn, leave, not feel · To what, where: body, crematorium, ashes, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Funerals and remembering» of the adult life 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 (Cremation, dead person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cremation | cremation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 burned | aux:pass |
| 6 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 crematorium | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crematorium | det |
| 9 | crematorium | crematorium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 left | mark |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 ashes | advmod |
| 12 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux:pass |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 burned | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 feel | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 feel | advmod |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 means | parataxis |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 feel | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Cremation | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | burn | present · passive | the body | a crematorium | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | present · passive | ashes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not feel | can | the dead person | anything | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:025-funerals-and-remembering.lesson:12.
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, 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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