What happens after we die? What our church teaches, sentence 13
Catholic, Orthodox and some Anglican Christians pray for the dead, to show love and ask God to look after them; many Protestants thank God for them instead.
Who acts: Catholic, many Protestants · What happens: pray, show, ask, look, thank · To what, where: love, God
This is a sentence of the lesson «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» 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 (Catholic, many Protestants), 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 | Catholic | catholic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Orthodox | punct |
| 3 | Orthodox | orthodox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Catholic | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Christians | cc |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Christians | det |
| 6 | Anglican | Anglican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Christians | compound |
| 7 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Catholic | conj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 dead | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dead | det |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pray | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pray | advcl |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ask | cc |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 show | conj |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ask | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ask | xcomp |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 thank | punct |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Protestants | amod |
| 25 | Protestants | Protestant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 thank | nsubj |
| 26 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pray | parataxis |
| 27 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 thank | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thank | obl |
| 30 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 26 thank | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians | for the dead | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for dead=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians not said here | love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians not said here | God | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent god=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | Catholic and Orthodox and some Anglican Christians not said here | after Christians = christian | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | thank speech: thank | present | many Protestants | God | for Christians = christian; instead property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for they=Attribute |
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:072-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches.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): R6-punct-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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