Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 4

Faiths differ: many Christians choose either burial or cremation, Catholic and Orthodox Christians often prefer burial, Hindus and Sikhs usually cremate, and Muslims and Orthodox Jews bury, Muslims usually in a simple white cloth within a day, as a sign that everyone is equal in death.

Who acts: Faiths, many Christians, Catholic Christians, Hindus, Muslims, everyone · What happens: differ, choose, prefer, cremate, bury, be · To what, where: burial, Muslims, sign, death

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 (Faiths, many Christians, Catholic Christians, 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	Faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 differ	nsubj
2	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 differ	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Christians	amod
5	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 choose	nsubj
6	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 differ	parataxis
7	either	either	CCONJ	_	8 burial	cc:preconj
8	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cremation	cc
10	cremation	cremation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burial	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Catholic	punct
12	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Christians	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Catholic	cc
14	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Catholic	conj
15	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 prefer	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 prefer	advmod
17	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	conj
18	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prefer	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cremate	punct
20	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 cremate	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Sikhs	cc
22	Sikhs	Sikh	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 Hindus	conj
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 cremate	advmod
24	cremate	cremate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 prefer	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bury	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bury	cc
27	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 bury	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Jews	cc
29	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Jews	amod
30	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 Muslims	conj
31	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 cremate	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Muslims	punct
33	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 cremate	obl
34	usually	usually	ADV	_	39 cloth	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 cloth	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cloth	det
37	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cloth	amod
38	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cloth	amod
39	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cremate	parataxis
40	within	within	ADP	_	42 day	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 day	det
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cloth	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sign	punct
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 sign	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sign	det
46	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bury	obl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 equal	mark
48	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	50 equal	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 equal	cop
50	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sign	acl
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 death	case
52	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 equal	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 differ	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	differ	present	Faiths				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	choose	present	many Christians	burial or cremation			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burial=Theme
3	prefer	present	Catholic Christians	burial		often property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burial=Stimulus
4	cremate	present	Hindus and Sikhs	Muslims		usually property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	bury	present	Muslims and Orthodox Jews			as a sign	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	everyone	a sign not said here	death	equal property	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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×4, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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