Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 5
In a burial the coffin is lowered into a grave in a cemetery or churchyard.
What happens: lower · To what, where: coffin, burial
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 burial | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 burial | det |
| 3 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffin | det |
| 5 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lowered | aux:pass |
| 7 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grave | det |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowered | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cemetery | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cemetery | det |
| 13 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowered | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 churchyard | cc |
| 15 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cemetery | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | present · passive | the coffin | a burial | into a grave; in a cemetery or churchyard | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme in burial=Destination into grave=Initial_Location |
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:5.
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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