The church funeral, sentence 14
Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people who work for the funeral director.
Who acts: Pallbearers, people · What happens: carry, be, work · To what, where: coffin, family
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 (Pallbearers, people), 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 | Pallbearers | pallbearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coffin | det |
| 4 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 family | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 family | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 family | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 family | cop |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 family | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 people | cc |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 friends | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 work | nsubj |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 director | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 director | det |
| 18 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 director | compound |
| 19 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Pallbearers | the coffin and family and friends or people | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | may | Pallbearers = pallbearer | family and friends or people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | work | present | people | for the funeral director | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for director=Beneficiary |
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.
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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 ×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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