Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 1

Picture the cemetery after Grandad's funeral: the coffin goes gently down on straps, the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection», and Ellie throws a little handful of soil as her goodbye.

Who acts: you, coffin, vicar, Ellie, resurrection · What happens: picture, go down, say, throw, hope · To what, where: cemetery, straps, earth, little handful · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, coffin, vicar, Ellie), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cemetery	det
3	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 funeral	case
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 funeral	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Grandad	case
7	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 goes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coffin	det
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
12	gently	gently	ADV	_	11 goes	advmod
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 goes	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 straps	case
15	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 goes	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vicar	det
18	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 earth	punct
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 earth	case
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 earth	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ashes	punct
25	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 earth	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 ashes	case
27	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ashes	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dust	punct
29	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 earth	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 dust	case
31	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dust	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hope	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 hope	case
34	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hope	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 certain	cc
36	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sure	conj
37	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dust	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 resurrection	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 resurrection	det
40	resurrection	resurrection	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hope	nmod
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 earth	punct
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 throws	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 throws	cc
44	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 throws	nsubj
45	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 handful	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 handful	amod
48	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 throws	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 soil	case
50	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 handful	nmod
51	as	as	ADP	_	53 goodbye	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 goodbye	nmod:poss
53	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 throws	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	the cemetery			after Grandad's funeral		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cemetery=Theme
2	go down	present	the coffin			straps		down, gently property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strap=Location
3	say speech: assert	present	the vicar	earth	earth and ashes to ashes and dust to dust in sure hope of the resurrection				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent earth=Topic to earth=Recipient
4	throw	present	Ellie	a little handful of soil				as Ellie's goodbye	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
5	hope in a quote		the resurrection						nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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