--- title: A Christian funeral gives thanks for a person's life, comforts those… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics description: A Christian funeral gives thanks for a person's life, comforts those who mourn and commits the person to God; at the grave the words «ashes to ashes, dust to dust» remind people that bodies return to the earth, said with the hope of resurrection. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian funeral, words, bodies, resurrection), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:1 # text = A Christian funeral gives thanks for a person's life, comforts those who mourn and commits the person to God; at the grave the words «ashes to ashes, dust to dust» remind people that bodies return to the earth, said with the hope of resurrection. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 comforts comfort VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 12 obj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 mourn mourn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 commits commit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 25 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=27:punct 33 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 » » PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 remind remind VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 return return VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 47 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 resurrection resurrection NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **give** | present | a Christian funeral | thanks | | | | for a person's life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for life=Asset | | 2 | **comfort** | present | a Christian funeral *not said here* | those | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer | | 3 | **mourn** | present | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **commit** | present | a Christian funeral *not said here* | the person | God | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to god=Destination | | 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | present | the words | the grave | people | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **return** | present | bodies | | | | | to the earth *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to earth=Result | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the words *not said here* | | | | | with the hope of resurrection | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with hope=Manner | | 8 | **hope** | | resurrection | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:025-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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