Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 12

Catholics are asked to keep ashes in a sacred place, such as a churchyard, rather than at home or scattered; Hindus often scatter ashes in a river such as the Ganges.

Who acts: Catholics, Hindus · What happens: ask, keep, scatter · To what, where: Catholics, ashes, sacred place, river

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 (Catholics, Hindus), 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	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 asked	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	aux:pass
3	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
6	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 place	det
9	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 churchyard	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 churchyard	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 churchyard	det
15	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 home	punct
17	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 home	cc
18	than	than	ADP	_	17 rather	fixed
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 scattered	cc
22	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 keep	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
24	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 scatter	nsubj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 scatter	advmod
26	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
27	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 scatter	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scatter	obl
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	34 Ganges	case
32	as	as	ADP	_	31 such	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Ganges	det
34	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 river	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		Catholics			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Catholics not said here	ashes	a sacred place such a churchyard	at home	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ash=Theme in place=Location
3	scatter	participle	Catholics not said here				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	scatter	present	Hindus	ashes	a river such the Ganges	often property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme in river=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:12.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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