The church funeral, sentence 11
Hymns are songs to God; at funerals they give comfort and hope; «The Lord's my shepherd», based on Psalm 23, is often sung.
Who acts: Hymns · What happens: be, give, base, sing · To what, where: songs, God, comfort, funerals, shepherd, Psalm
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 (Hymns), 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 | Hymns | hymn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 songs | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 songs | cop |
| 3 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sung | parataxis |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 songs | nmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 funerals | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 funerals | case |
| 8 | funerals | funeral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 songs | parataxis |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hope | cc |
| 13 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comfort | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 shepherd | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 shepherd | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lord | det |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shepherd | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Lord | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shepherd | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 shepherd | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 based | punct |
| 23 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 shepherd | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 Psalm | case |
| 25 | Psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 based | obl |
| 26 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 Psalm | flat |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sung | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sung | aux:pass |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 sung | advmod |
| 30 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 songs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hymns | songs | God | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | present | Hymns = hymn | comfort and hope | funerals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme at funeral=Asset | |||
| 3 | base | participle | the Lord's shepherd not said here | Psalm | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on psalm=Source | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | present · passive | the Lord's shepherd | often property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: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, R6-punct-agree ×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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