Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 3

A grave or a place where ashes rest gives people somewhere to go and remember: Ellie brings flowers a few weeks later, and Oliver reads «Rest in Peace» on a headstone from 1850, an old prayer that the person may be at peace.

Who acts: ashes, grave, Ellie, Oliver, person · What happens: rest, give, go, remember, bring, read · To what, where: people, flowers, « Rest, Peace, old prayer

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, grave, Ellie, Oliver), 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 grave	det
2	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gives	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 place	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grave	conj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 rest	advmod
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rest	nsubj
8	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 place	acl:relcl
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gives	iobj
11	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 gives	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 somewhere	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remember	cc
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 Ellie	punct
17	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 brings	nsubj
18	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gives	parataxis
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brings	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 weeks	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 weeks	amod
22	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 later	obl:unmarked
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 brings	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reads	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reads	cc
26	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 reads	nsubj
27	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 brings	conj
28	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Rest	compound
29	Rest	Rest	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 reads	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Peace	case
31	Peace	Peace	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Rest	nmod
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 Rest	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 headstone	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 headstone	det
35	headstone	headstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reads	obl
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 1850	case
37	1850	1850	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 headstone	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 prayer	punct
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 prayer	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 prayer	amod
41	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 headstone	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 peace	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 person	det
44	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 peace	nsubj
45	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 peace	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 peace	cop
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 peace	case
48	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 prayer	acl:relcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 brings	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	present	ashes					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	a grave or a place		people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient somewhere=Theme
3	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remember	infinitive						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	bring	present	Ellie	flowers			late property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
6	read	present	Oliver	« Rest		Peace	on a headstone from 1850 and a old prayer	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic
7	is	may	the person	a old prayer not said here		peace		tree rules

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:3.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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