Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 8

Cremation means the body is turned to ashes by great heat at a crematorium, and the ashes are given to the family; the person cannot feel anything.

Who acts: Cremation, great heat, person · What happens: mean, turn, give, not feel · To what, where: body, crematorium, ashes, family, anything · 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 (Cremation, great heat, person), 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	Cremation	cremation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux:pass
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 ashes	case
8	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 heat	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heat	amod
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 crematorium	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crematorium	det
14	crematorium	crematorium	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 given	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ashes	det
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 given	nsubj:pass
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux:pass
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 turned	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 family	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 family	det
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 feel	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 person	det
26	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feel	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 feel	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 feel	advmod
29	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	parataxis
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 feel	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Cremation					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn	present · passive	great heat	the body		a crematorium	to ashes	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to ash=Source at crematorium=Trajectory
3	give	present · passive		the ashes	the family			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to family=Recipient
4	not feel	can	the person	anything				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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:8.

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): R7-rel-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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