Funerals and remembering, sentence 18

A memorial service remembers someone who has died, usually without the coffin, and may be months after the funeral; it is often more about celebrating the life.

Who acts: memorial service, coffin · What happens: remember, die, be, celebrate · To what, where: someone, months, life

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 (memorial service, coffin), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 service	det
2	memorial	memorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 service	amod
3	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembers	nsubj
4	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 remembers	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 died	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 someone	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 usually	punct
10	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 coffin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coffin	det
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 months	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 months	cc
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 months	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 months	cop
18	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remembers	conj
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 funeral	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 funeral	det
21	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 months	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 more	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 more	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 more	cop
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 remembers	conj
27	about	about	SCONJ	_	28 celebrating	mark
28	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 more	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 life	det
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 celebrating	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	a memorial service	someone			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	die	present · perfect				without the coffin; usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is a	may	a memorial service not said here	months	after the funeral		tree rules
4	is	present	coffin			more, often property	tree rules
5	celebrate	gerund		the life			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:18.

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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