Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave, sentence 9
At many crematorium services curtains close around the coffin at the end, as a sign of goodbye.
Who acts: curtains · What happens: close, sign · To what, where: many crematorium services, goodbye
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 (curtains), 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 | _ | 4 services | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 services | amod |
| 3 | crematorium | crematorium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 services | compound |
| 4 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 close | obl |
| 5 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 close | nsubj |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 coffin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coffin | det |
| 9 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sign | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sign | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sign | det |
| 16 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 goodbye | case |
| 18 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sign | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | curtains | many crematorium services | at the end | around the coffin; as a sign of goodbye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | sign | goodbye | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:9.
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): R5-strong ×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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