Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 7

Throwing a little soil on the coffin is an old way of taking part in the burial and saying goodbye; in Jewish funerals mourners often shovel earth into the grave themselves.

Who acts: Throwing, old way, mourners · What happens: throw, be, take, say, shovel · To what, where: little soil, coffin, old way, part, burial, goodbye · 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 (Throwing, old way, mourners), 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	Throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 soil	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soil	amod
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throwing	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 coffin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coffin	det
7	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throwing	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 taking	mark
13	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	acl
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taking	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 burial	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 burial	det
17	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taking	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saying	cc
19	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 taking	conj
20	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saying	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 funerals	case
23	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 funerals	amod
24	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shovel	obl
25	mourners	mourner	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shovel	nsubj
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 shovel	advmod
27	shovel	shovel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 way	parataxis
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shovel	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 grave	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grave	det
31	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shovel	obl
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 shovel	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 way	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		a little soil	the coffin		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent soil=Theme on coffin=Destination
2	is a	present	Throwing	a old way			tree rules
3	take	gerund	a old way not said here	part	the burial		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in burial=Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	a old way not said here	goodbye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic
5	shovel	present	mourners	earth	Jewish funerals	into the grave; often property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme themselves=Destination

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:7.

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 ×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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