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title: Psalm 23 is often read at funerals because Christians find comfort i… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Psalm 23 is often read at funerals because Christians find comfort in it that God is with them in hard times. Who acts: Christians, God. A sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms and Proverbs, sentence 8

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Psalm 23 is often read at funerals because Christians find comfort in it that God is with them in hard times.

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**Who acts:** Christians, God · **What happens:** read, find, be · **To what, where:** Psalm, funerals, comfort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Psalms and Proverbs» 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 (Christians, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson:8
# text = Psalm 23 is often read at funerals because Christians find comfort in it that God is with them in hard times.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 011-psalms-and-proverbs.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	funerals	funeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · passive |  | Psalm |  | funerals |  | often *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at funeral=Value |
| 2 | **find** | present | Christians | comfort |  | comfort | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | God |  |  |  |  | with Psalms *= psalm* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): 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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