Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 1

A Christian funeral gives thanks for a person's life, comforts those who mourn and commits the person to God; at the grave the words «ashes to ashes, dust to dust» remind people that bodies return to the earth, said with the hope of resurrection.

Who acts: Christian funeral, words, bodies, resurrection · What happens: give, comfort, mourn, commit, remind, return · To what, where: thanks, those, person, God, grave, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 (Christian funeral, words, bodies, resurrection), 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 funeral	det
2	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 funeral	amod
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 life	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 life	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 person	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thanks	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comforts	punct
12	comforts	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	conj
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 comforts	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 mourn	nsubj
15	mourn	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 those	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 commits	cc
17	commits	commit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 those	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 commits	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 God	case
21	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 commits	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 dust	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	27 words	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grave	det
25	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 remind	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 words	det
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 remind	nsubj
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 ashes	punct
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 words	appos
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 ashes	case
31	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ashes	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dust	punct
33	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ashes	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 dust	case
35	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dust	nmod
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 remind	punct
37	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gives	parataxis
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 remind	obj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 return	mark
40	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 return	nsubj
41	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 remind	ccomp
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 earth	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 earth	det
44	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 return	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 remind	advcl
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 hope	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 hope	det
49	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 resurrection	case
51	resurrection	resurrection	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hope	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gives	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	a Christian funeral	thanks		for a person's life	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for life=Asset
2	comfort	present	a Christian funeral not said here	those			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer
3	mourn	present					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	commit	present	a Christian funeral not said here	the person	God		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to god=Destination
5	remind speech: other	present	the words	the grave	people		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
6	return	present	bodies			to the earth result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result
7	say speech: assert	past	the words not said here			with the hope of resurrection	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with hope=Manner
8	hope		resurrection				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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:religion-ethics:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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