Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 11

Ashes look like fine grey sand; families may keep them, bury them or scatter them in a special place.

Who acts: Ashes, families · What happens: look, keep, bury, scatter · To what, where: ashes, special place

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 (Ashes, families), 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	Ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 sand	case
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sand	amod
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sand	amod
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	aux
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 look	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bury	punct
13	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 keep	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bury	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 scatter	cc
16	scatter	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 keep	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scatter	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
20	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 place	amod
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 scatter	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	Ashes			like fine grey sand	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	keep	may	families	ashes = ash			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	bury	infinitive	families not said here	ashes = ash			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	scatter	infinitive	families not said here	ashes = ash	a special place		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Destination

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:11.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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