Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 10

A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, talk and share stories; it helps people grieve together.

Who acts: wake, people, funeral · What happens: be, eat, talk, share, help, grieve · To what, where: gathering, stories, people

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 (wake, people, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wake	det
2	wake	wake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathering	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gathering	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gathering	det
5	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 funeral	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 funeral	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gathering	nmod
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 eat	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 funeral	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct
13	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 share	cc
15	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	conj
16	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 share	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 helps	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 helps	nsubj
19	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gathering	parataxis
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 helps	obj
21	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 helps	xcomp
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 grieve	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gathering	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a wake	a gathering	after a funeral		tree rules
2	eat	present	people				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	present	people not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	share	present	people not said here	stories			tree rules
5	help	present	funeral	people			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	grieve	infinitive	people not said here			together property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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:10.

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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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