How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 10

At a Hindu funeral the body is usually cremated; traditionally the eldest son leads the rites, though today daughters sometimes do too.

Who acts: eldest son, today daughters · What happens: cremate, lead, do · To what, where: body, Hindu funeral, rites

This is a sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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 (eldest son, today daughters), 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 funeral	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 funeral	det
3	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 funeral	amod
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cremated	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cremated	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cremated	aux:pass
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 cremated	advmod
9	cremated	cremate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 leads	punct
11	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	_	15 leads	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 son	det
13	eldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 son	amod
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leads	nsubj
15	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cremated	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rites	det
17	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 leads	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 do	mark
20	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 daughters	compound
21	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 do	nsubj
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 do	advmod
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cremated	conj
24	too	too	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cremated	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cremate	present · passive		the body	a Hindu funeral	usually property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	lead	present	the eldest son	the rites		traditionally property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=Theme
3	do	present	today daughters			sometimes property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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