Funerals and remembering, sentence 14

Burial means the coffin is put into a grave in the ground and covered with earth; a headstone with the name is added later.

Who acts: Burial · What happens: mean, put, cover, add · To what, where: coffin, grave, headstone · 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 (Burial), 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	Burial	burial	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 coffin	det
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux:pass
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 covered	cc
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 put	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 earth	case
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 headstone	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 headstone	det
19	headstone	headstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 earth	conj
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 added	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 name	det
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 headstone	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 added	aux:pass
24	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 headstone	acl:relcl
25	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 added	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Burial				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	present · passive		the coffin	a grave	in the ground	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in ground=Destination
3	cover	participle				with earth and a headstone the name	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with earth=Theme
4	add speech: assert	present · passive		a headstone the name not said here		late property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»

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:14.

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. 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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