Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 15

Muslims usually bury their dead within a day, wrapped in a simple white cloth called a shroud; Jews often use a plain wooden coffin.

Who acts: Muslims, simple white cloth, Jews · What happens: bury, wrap, call, use · To what, where: dead, simple white cloth, shroud, plain wooden coffin · 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 (Muslims, simple white cloth, Jews), 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	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 bury	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 bury	advmod
3	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dead	nmod:poss
5	dead	dead	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bury	obj
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bury	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrapped	punct
10	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bury	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 cloth	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cloth	det
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloth	amod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cloth	amod
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrapped	obl
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cloth	acl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shroud	det
18	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 use	punct
20	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 use	nsubj
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 use	advmod
22	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 coffin	det
24	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coffin	amod
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coffin	amod
26	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Muslims	Muslims's dead		day	usually property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
2	wrap	participle	Muslims not said here		a simple white cloth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination
3	call	participle	a simple white cloth not said here	a shroud				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shroud=Recipient
4	use	present	Jews	a plain wooden coffin			often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient

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:15.

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 ×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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