How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 13

Muslims usually bury their dead within a day if possible, as a sign of respect; the body is washed, wrapped in white cloth and laid facing Mecca.

Who acts: Muslims · What happens: bury, wash, wrap, lay, face, sign · To what, where: dead, body, white cloth, Mecca, respect

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 (Muslims), 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	Muslims	Muslim	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 bury	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 bury	advmod
3	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dead	nmod:poss
5	dead	dead	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bury	obj
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bury	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 possible	mark
10	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bury	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sign	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 sign	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sign	det
14	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bury	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 respect	case
16	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sign	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 washed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 body	det
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 washed	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 washed	aux:pass
21	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bury	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wrapped	punct
23	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 washed	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 cloth	case
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cloth	amod
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wrapped	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laid	cc
28	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 washed	conj
29	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 laid	xcomp
30	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 facing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	Muslims	Muslims's dead			day	as a sign of respect; usually property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme
2	wash	present · passive		the body					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	wrap	participle				white cloth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination
4	lay	past							tree rules
5	face	gerund			Mecca				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mecca=Destination
6	sign			respect					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:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:13.

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, 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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