Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 16
Visiting a grave and bringing flowers is a way for the living to show love and remember.
Who acts: Visiting · What happens: visit, bring, be, show, remember · To what, where: grave, flowers, way, love
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 (Visiting), 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 | Visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Visiting | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bringing | cc |
| 5 | bringing | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Visiting | conj |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bringing | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 living | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 living | det |
| 12 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remember | cc |
| 17 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 show | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | a grave | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | flowers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Visiting | a way | for the living | tree rules | |||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | remember | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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:16.
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): no change. 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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