The church funeral, sentence 10
Funerals often include poems, readings and funny stories about the person's life; laughing together can be a way of loving them.
Who acts: Funerals, laughing, way · What happens: include, laugh, be, love · To what, where: poems, way
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 (Funerals, laughing, way), 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 | Funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 include | advmod |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 readings | punct |
| 6 | readings | reading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poems | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stories | cc |
| 8 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stories | amod |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poems | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 person | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 way | punct |
| 16 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 way | csubj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 laughing | advmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 way | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 way | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 include | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 loving | mark |
| 23 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 way | acl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 loving | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Funerals | poems and readings and funny stories about the person's life | often property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | together property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | can | laughing | a way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | gerund | a way not said here | poems = poem | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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:10.
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): no change. 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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