Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 0

After a person dies, families care for the body in one of two main ways: burial, where the coffin is lowered into a grave, or cremation, where the body is turned to soft grey ashes by great heat at a crematorium; the person cannot feel anything, because their body has already stopped working.

Who acts: person, families, great heat, body · What happens: die, care, lower, turn, not feel, stop · To what, where: coffin, grave, body, soft grey ashes, anything

This is a sentence of the lesson «Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave» 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 (person, families, great heat, body), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 dies	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dies	nsubj
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 care	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 care	nsubj
7	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 care	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 ways	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 ways	nummod
15	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ways	amod
16	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 burial	punct
18	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ways	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lowered	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 lowered	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 coffin	det
22	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lowered	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lowered	aux:pass
24	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 burial	acl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 grave	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 grave	det
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lowered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cremation	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 cremation	cc
30	cremation	cremation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grave	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 turned	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 turned	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 body	det
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turned	nsubj:pass
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 turned	aux:pass
36	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 cremation	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	40 ashes	case
38	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ashes	amod
39	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 ashes	amod
40	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 turned	obl
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 heat	case
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 heat	amod
43	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 turned	obl
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 crematorium	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 crematorium	det
46	crematorium	crematorium	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heat	nmod
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 feel	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 person	det
49	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 feel	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 feel	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 feel	advmod
52	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 care	parataxis
53	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 feel	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 stopped	punct
55	because	because	SCONJ	_	60 stopped	mark
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 body	nmod:poss
57	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 stopped	nsubj
58	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 stopped	aux
59	already	already	ADV	_	60 stopped	advmod
60	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 feel	advcl
61	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	60 stopped	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 care	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present	a person				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	care	present	families			for the body; in one of two main ways and burial	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for body=Theme
3	lower	present · passive		the coffin	a grave or cremation		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into grave=Destination
4	turn	present · passive	great heat at a crematorium	the body	soft grey ashes		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to ash=Trajectory
5	not feel	can	the person	anything			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
6	stop	present · perfect	families's body				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	work	gerund	families's body not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

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