The church funeral, sentence 9

The Church of England uses funeral words from the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship; to «commend» someone to God means to entrust them to God's care.

Who acts: Church, God · What happens: use, commend, mean, entrust, care · To what, where: funeral words, Book, someone, God, words, care · 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 (Church, God), 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 Church	det
2	Church	Church	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 uses	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Church	nmod
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	compound
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uses	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Book	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Book	det
10	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 words	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Prayer	case
12	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Prayer	amod
13	Prayer	prayer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Book	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Worship	cc
15	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Worship	amod
16	Worship	worship	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Prayer	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	20 commend	mark
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 commend	punct
20	commend	commend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	csubj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 commend	punct
22	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 commend	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 God	case
24	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 commend	obl
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 uses	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 entrust	mark
27	entrust	entrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 entrust	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 care	case
30	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 care	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 God	case
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 entrust	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	use	present	the Church of England	funeral words		the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	commend in a quote	to-infinitive		someone	God		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
3	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	entrust not said to happen	to-infinitive		words = word	God's care		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to care=Recipient
5	care		God				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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