When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 11

Many Hindu families hold prayers and gatherings for about thirteen days after a death; Hindus believe the soul moves on to a new life.

Who acts: Many Hindu families, Hindus, soul · What happens: hold, believe, move on · To what, where: prayers, new life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (Many Hindu families, Hindus, soul), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
2	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	nsubj
4	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gatherings	cc
7	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 prayers	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 thirteen	advmod
10	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hold	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 death	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 death	det
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
16	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 believe	nsubj
17	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hold	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 soul	det
19	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moves	nsubj
20	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	ccomp
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 moves	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 life	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 life	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 life	amod
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moves	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hold	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hold	present	Many Hindu families	prayers and gatherings		after a death; day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
2	believe	present	Hindus				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	move on	present	the soul		a new life		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to life=Trajectory

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:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:11.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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