The church funeral, sentence 0
A Christian funeral gives thanks to God for a person's life, comforts the people who are sad and commits the person to God's care; the body lies in the coffin at the front, and the person cannot feel or see anything any more.
Who acts: Christian funeral, people, body, person, God · What happens: give, comfort, be, commit, lie, not feel · To what, where: thanks, God, people, person, care, coffin
This is a sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» 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, people, body, person), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thanks | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 person | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comforts | punct |
| 14 | comforts | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 comforts | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sad | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sad | cop |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 commits | cc |
| 21 | commits | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 comforts | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 person | det |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commits | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 care | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 care | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 God | case |
| 27 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commits | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 lies | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 body | det |
| 30 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lies | nsubj |
| 31 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gives | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 coffin | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 coffin | det |
| 34 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lies | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 front | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 front | det |
| 37 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lies | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 feel | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 feel | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 person | det |
| 41 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 feel | nsubj |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 feel | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 feel | advmod |
| 44 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gives | conj |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 see | cc |
| 46 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 feel | conj |
| 47 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 46 see | obj |
| 48 | any | any | ADV | _ | 49 more | advmod |
| 49 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 46 see | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a Christian funeral | thanks | God | for a person's life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for life=Asset to god=Recipient | ||
| 2 | comfort | present | a Christian funeral not said here | the people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the people | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | commit | present | a Christian funeral not said here | the person | God's care | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to care=Destination | |||
| 5 | lie | present | the body | the coffin | at the front | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location | |||
| 6 | not feel | can | the person | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | see | infinitive | the person not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | care | God | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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:062-the-church-funeral.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 ×3, R7-rel-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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