--- title: Deacons, elders, church wardens and many volunteers care for people,… — Weddings, funerals and the people of the church · tree and pragmatics description: Deacons, elders, church wardens and many volunteers care for people, buildings and money, and monks and nuns give their whole lives to prayer and service. Who acts: Deacons. A sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Weddings, funerals and the people of t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/) / 4 # Weddings, funerals and the people of the church, sentence 4 Deacons, elders, church wardens and many volunteers care for people, buildings and money, and monks and nuns give their whole lives to prayer and service. **Who acts:** Deacons · **What happens:** care, give · **To what, where:** whole lives, prayer This is a sentence of the lesson «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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 (Deacons), 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:4 # text = Deacons, elders, church wardens and many volunteers care for people, buildings and money, and monks and nuns give their whole lives to prayer and service. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4 1 Deacons deacon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 elders elder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 wardens warden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 volunteers volunteer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 10 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:parataxis 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 nuns nun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 22 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **care** | present | Deacons and elders and church wardens and many volunteers and monks and nuns | | | | | for people and buildings and money | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | Deacons and elders and church wardens and many volunteers and monks and nuns *not said here* | people's whole lives | prayer and service | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to prayer=Recipient | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4. **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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