How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 7
An ofrenda is an altar with photos, candles, food and favourite things of the dead, offered as a sign of love and welcome; most families do not think the dead really eat it, though some believe the spirits enjoy its smell.
Who acts: ofrenda, most families, dead, some, spirits, family · What happens: be, offer, not think, eat, believe, enjoy · To what, where: altar, food, family, smell, love · 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 (ofrenda, most families, dead, some), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ofrenda | det |
| 2 | ofrenda | ofrenda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 altar | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 altar | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 altar | det |
| 5 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 photos | case |
| 7 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 altar | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 candles | punct |
| 9 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 photos | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 food | punct |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 candles | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 things | cc |
| 13 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 food | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dead | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dead | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offered | punct |
| 19 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 food | acl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 sign | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sign | det |
| 22 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offered | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 love | case |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sign | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 welcome | cc |
| 26 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 love | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 think | punct |
| 28 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 families | amod |
| 29 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 think | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 think | advmod |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 altar | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dead | det |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 eat | nsubj |
| 35 | really | really | ADV | _ | 36 eat | advmod |
| 36 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | ccomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 eat | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 believe | punct |
| 39 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 41 believe | mark |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 believe | nsubj |
| 41 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 spirits | det |
| 43 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 enjoy | nsubj |
| 44 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 believe | ccomp |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 smell | nmod:poss |
| 46 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 enjoy | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 altar | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a ofrenda | a altar | with photos and candles and food and favourite things of the dead | tree rules | |||
| 2 | offer | participle | food and favourite things of the dead not said here | as a sign of love and welcome | vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent as sign=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | most families | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | present | the dead | family | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | believe | present | some | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | enjoy | present | the spirits | family's smell | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | sign | love and welcome | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | smell | family | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:7.
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 ×2, 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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