Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon», sentence 0

A little burial in the garden is a way for people to say goodbye and thank you; the animal does not need it, but people often feel better afterwards, and it can have a prayer, a poem, a song or just a quiet moment.

Who acts: little burial, people, animal · What happens: be, say, thank, not need, feel, have · To what, where: way, goodbye, you, prayer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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 (little burial, people, animal), 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 burial	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burial	amod
3	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burial	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 say	mark
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
14	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thank	cc
16	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thank	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 need	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 need	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 need	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 need	advmod
23	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 thank	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 need	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 feel	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 feel	cc
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 feel	nsubj
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 feel	advmod
29	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 need	conj
30	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 feel	xcomp
31	afterwards	afterward	ADV	_	29 feel	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 have	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 feel	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 prayer	det
38	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 poem	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 poem	det
41	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 prayer	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 song	punct
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 song	det
44	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 prayer	conj
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 moment	cc
46	just	just	ADV	_	49 moment	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 moment	det
48	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 moment	amod
49	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 prayer	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a little burial in the garden	a way			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	people	goodbye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic
3	thank speech: thank	infinitive	people not said here		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	not need	present · do-support	the animal	goodbye			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	feel	present	people			afterward, good, often property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	have	can	animal	a prayer and a poem and a song or a quiet moment			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Patient

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:057-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon.lesson:0.

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 ×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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