The church funeral, sentence 2
The vicar speaks in very formal, old words, such as «to remember before God our brother Peter, to give thanks for his life and commend him to God», because a funeral is solemn, and some of these words have been said for hundreds of years.
Who acts: vicar, funeral · What happens: speak, remember, give, commend, be, say · To what, where: formal old words, brother, thanks, vicar, God, some · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (vicar, funeral), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vicar | det |
| 2 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 formal | advmod |
| 6 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 formal | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 speaks | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 remember | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | fixed |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 remember | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 remember | mark |
| 15 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 speaks | parataxis |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 God | case |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 remember | obl |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remember | obj |
| 20 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 remember | conj |
| 24 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thanks | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 commend | cc |
| 29 | commend | commend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 commend | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 commend | obl |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 remember | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 solemn | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 39 solemn | mark |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 funeral | det |
| 37 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 solemn | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 solemn | cop |
| 39 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speaks | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 said | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 said | cc |
| 42 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 said | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 words | case |
| 44 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 words | det |
| 45 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 some | nmod |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 said | aux |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 said | aux:pass |
| 48 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 speaks | conj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 hundreds | case |
| 50 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 said | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 years | case |
| 52 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 hundreds | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the vicar | formal old words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | to-infinitive | our brother | before God | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | thanks | for God's life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for life=Asset | ||||
| 4 | commend in a quote | infinitive | vicar | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a funeral | solemn property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | some | for hundreds of years | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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:2.
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, R7-rel-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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