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title: In Ireland a wake is often held at home, where people visit, pray, c… — When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Ireland a wake is often held at home, where people visit, pray, chat and share food; mourners say «sorry for your trouble», and nobody has to look at the body. Who acts: people, mourners, nobody, your. A sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» of the religion 
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# When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do, sentence 14

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In Ireland a wake is often held at home, where people visit, pray, chat and share food; mourners say «sorry for your trouble», and nobody has to look at the body.

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**Who acts:** people, mourners, nobody, your · **What happens:** hold, visit, pray, chat, share, say · **To what, where:** wake, Ireland, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a friend's mum or dad dies: what to say and do» 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 (people, mourners, nobody, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.lesson:14
# text = In Ireland a wake is often held at home, where people visit, pray, chat and share food; mourners say «sorry for your trouble», and nobody has to look at the body.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 061-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do.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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wake	wake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	chat	chat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	mourners	mourner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
25	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · passive |  | a wake |  | Ireland |  | at home; often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in ireland=Location |
| 2 | **visit** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **chat** *speech: other* | present | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **share** | present | people *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | mourners |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **have** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **look** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the body | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at body=Theme |
| 9 | **trouble** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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