The church funeral, sentence 13
Many people wear dark clothes to a funeral; it is a custom that shows respect and sadness.
Who acts: Many people, funeral, custom · What happens: wear, be, show · To what, where: dark clothes, custom, respect
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 (Many people, funeral, custom), 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 | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clothes | amod |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 wear | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 funeral | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 funeral | det |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 custom | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 custom | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 custom | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 custom | det |
| 13 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shows | nsubj |
| 15 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 custom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shows | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sadness | cc |
| 18 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 respect | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | Many people | dark clothes | to a funeral | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | |||
| 2 | is a | present | funeral | a custom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | a custom | respect and sadness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient |
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:13.
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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