--- title: A Christian funeral gives thanks to God for a person's life, comfort… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics description: A Christian funeral gives thanks to God for a person's life, comforts the people who are sad and commits the person to God's care; the body lies in the coffin at the front, and the person cannot feel or see anything any more. Who acts: Christian funeral, people, body, person. 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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, people, body, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:0 # text = A Christian funeral gives thanks to God for a person's life, comforts the people who are sad and commits the person to God's care; the body lies in the coffin at the front, and the person cannot feel or see anything any more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 062-the-church-funeral.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 comforts comfort VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 commits commit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 45 or or CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 47 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 46 obj _ _ 48 any any ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Ind 49 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 46 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | a Christian funeral | thanks | God | | | for a person's life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for life=Asset to god=Recipient | | 2 | **comfort** | present | a Christian funeral *not said here* | the people | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | the people | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **commit** | present | a Christian funeral *not said here* | the person | | God's care | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Theme to care=Destination | | 5 | **lie** | present | the body | | | the coffin | | at the front | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location | | 6 | **not** **feel** | can | the person | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **see** | infinitive | the person *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | | 8 | **care** | | God | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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:062-the-church-funeral.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When a friend's mum or dad dies: what…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/61-when-a-friends-mum-or-dad-dies-what-to-say-and-do/15/) - next →: [The church funeral, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/)