How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 14
A tangihanga, or tangi, is a Māori funeral, often held on a marae (a Māori meeting place) over about three days; the body is not left alone, and people sing and give speeches.
Who acts: tangihanga, people · What happens: be, hold, not leave, sing, give · To what, where: Māori funeral, marae, body, speeches
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 (tangihanga, people), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tangihanga | det |
| 2 | tangihanga | tangihanga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 funeral | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tangi | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 tangi | cc |
| 5 | tangi | tangi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tangihanga | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tangihanga | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 funeral | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 funeral | det |
| 9 | Māori | Māori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 funeral | amod |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 held | advmod |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 funeral | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 marae | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 marae | det |
| 16 | marae | marae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 place | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 19 | Māori | Māori | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | amod |
| 20 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | compound |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marae | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 place | punct |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 three | advmod |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 days | nummod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 held | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 body | det |
| 29 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 left | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 left | advmod |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 marae | conj |
| 33 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 left | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sing | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sing | cc |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 sing | nsubj |
| 37 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 give | cc |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sing | conj |
| 40 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 give | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 funeral | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tangihanga or tangi | a Māori funeral | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | participle | a Māori funeral not said here | a marae | day | often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on marae=Location | ||
| 3 | not leave | present · passive | the body | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | present | people | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | give | present | people not said here | speeches | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=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:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:14.
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 ×5, 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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