When a grandparent dies, sentence 12
Orthodox and Catholic Christians, and many cultures, often sit with the body and pray before the funeral.
Who acts: Orthodox Christians · What happens: sit, pray
This is a sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» 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 (Orthodox Christians), 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 | Orthodox | orthodox | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Christians | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Christians | cc |
| 3 | Catholic | Catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Orthodox | conj |
| 4 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 sit | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cultures | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cultures | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cultures | amod |
| 8 | cultures | culture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Christians | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sit | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 sit | advmod |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sit | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pray | cc |
| 16 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sit | conj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 funeral | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 funeral | det |
| 19 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pray | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Orthodox Christians and many cultures | with the body; often property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | Orthodox Christians and many cultures not said here | before the funeral | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
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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 ×1, R6-punct-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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