How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 12
Jewish families «sit shiva», a week of mourning at home, when friends visit with food and comfort; mourners say the Kaddish, a prayer praising God.
Who acts: Jewish families, friends, mourners, prayer · What happens: sit, visit, say, praising · To what, where: shiva, Kaddish, God · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jewish families, friends, mourners, prayer), 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 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 families | amod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 families | acl |
| 5 | shiva | shiva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 week | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mourning | case |
| 11 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 week | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourning | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 visit | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 visit | advmod |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 visit | nsubj |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 comfort | cc |
| 21 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 food | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 say | punct |
| 23 | mourners | mourner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 say | nsubj |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 visit | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Kaddish | det |
| 26 | Kaddish | kaddish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 say | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Kaddish | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 prayer | det |
| 29 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Kaddish | appos |
| 30 | praising | praising | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 prayer | acl |
| 31 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 praising | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | infinitive | Jewish families not said here | shiva | week | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shiva=Theme | |||
| 2 | visit | present | friends | with food and comfort | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with food=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | mourners | the Kaddish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kaddish=Topic | ||||
| 4 | praising | gerund | a prayer not said here | God | tree rules |
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:12.
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, R8-pos-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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