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title: Orthodox and Catholic Christians, and many cultures, often sit with… — When a grandparent dies · tree and pragmatics
description: Orthodox and Catholic Christians, and many cultures, often sit with the body and pray before the funeral. Who acts: Orthodox Christians. A sentence of the lesson «When a grandparent dies» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# When a grandparent dies, sentence 12

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Orthodox and Catholic Christians, and many cultures, often sit with the body and pray before the funeral.

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**Who acts:** Orthodox Christians · **What happens:** sit, pray

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:058-when-a-grandparent-dies.lesson:12
# text = Orthodox and Catholic Christians, and many cultures, often sit with the body and pray before the funeral.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 058-when-a-grandparent-dies.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Orthodox	orthodox	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	Catholic	Catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cultures	culture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **sit** | present | Orthodox Christians and many cultures |  |  |  |  | with the body; often *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | present | Orthodox Christians and many cultures *not said here* |  |  |  | before the funeral |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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