How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 6
It mixes Catholic All Saints' and All Souls' Days with older Indigenous Mexican traditions; families decorate graves with orange marigolds and make sugar skulls.
Who acts: dead, families · What happens: mix, decorate, make · To what, where: Catholic Saints, graves, sugar skulls
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 (dead, families), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mixes | nsubj |
| 2 | mixes | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Catholic | catholic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Saints | compound |
| 4 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Saints | det |
| 5 | Saints | Saint | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 mixes | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Saints | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Days | cc |
| 8 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 Souls | det |
| 9 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Days | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Souls | case |
| 11 | Days | Day | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Saints | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 traditions | case |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 traditions | amod |
| 14 | Indigenous | Indigenous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 traditions | amod |
| 15 | Mexican | Mexican | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 traditions | amod |
| 16 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mixes | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 decorate | punct |
| 18 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 decorate | nsubj |
| 19 | decorate | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mixes | parataxis |
| 20 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 decorate | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 marigolds | case |
| 22 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 marigolds | amod |
| 23 | marigolds | marigold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 decorate | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 decorate | conj |
| 26 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 skulls | compound |
| 27 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mixes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | present | dead | all Catholic Saints and all Souls's Days | with older Indigenous Mexican traditions | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent saint=Patient with tradition=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | decorate | present | families | graves | with orange marigolds | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Destination with marigold=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | present | families not said here | sugar skulls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skull=Product |
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:6.
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, 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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