Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 4

Deacons, elders, church wardens and many volunteers care for people, buildings and money, and monks and nuns give their whole lives to prayer and service.

Who acts: Deacons · What happens: care, give · To what, where: whole lives, prayer

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 (Deacons), 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	Deacons	deacon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 care	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 elders	punct
3	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deacons	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wardens	punct
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wardens	compound
6	wardens	warden	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deacons	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 volunteers	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 volunteers	amod
9	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deacons	conj
10	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 care	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buildings	punct
14	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 people	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 money	cc
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buildings	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 monks	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 monks	cc
19	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Deacons	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nuns	cc
21	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 monks	conj
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 care	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lives	nmod:poss
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lives	amod
25	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 prayer	case
27	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 service	cc
29	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 prayer	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	present	Deacons and elders and church wardens and many volunteers and monks and nuns					for people and buildings and money	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme
2	give	present	Deacons and elders and church wardens and many volunteers and monks and nuns not said here	people's whole lives	prayer and service				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to prayer=Recipient

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:4.

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, R5-strong ×4. 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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