Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 6
At a Church of England burial the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection».
Who acts: vicar, resurrection · What happens: say, hope · To what, where: earth, Church burial · 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 (vicar, resurrection), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 burial | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 burial | det |
| 3 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 burial | compound |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 England | case |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Church | nmod |
| 6 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vicar | det |
| 8 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 earth | punct |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earth | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ashes | punct |
| 15 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 earth | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ashes | case |
| 17 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ashes | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dust | punct |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 earth | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 dust | case |
| 21 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dust | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hope | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hope | case |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hope | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 certain | cc |
| 26 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sure | conj |
| 27 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dust | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 resurrection | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 resurrection | det |
| 30 | resurrection | resurrection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hope | nmod |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 earth | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the vicar | earth to earth and ashes to ashes and dust to dust | a Church burial | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hope in a quote | the resurrection | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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