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title: Funerals often include poems, readings and funny stories about the p… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: Funerals often include poems, readings and funny stories about the person's life; laughing together can be a way of loving them. Who acts: Funerals, laughing, way. A sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The church funeral, sentence 10

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Funerals often include poems, readings and funny stories about the person's life; laughing together can be a way of loving them.

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**Who acts:** Funerals, laughing, way · **What happens:** include, laugh, be, love · **To what, where:** poems, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» 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 (Funerals, laughing, way), 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:10
# text = Funerals often include poems, readings and funny stories about the person's life; laughing together can be a way of loving them.
# 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): no change
1	Funerals	funeral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	readings	reading	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	loving	love	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **include** | present | Funerals | poems and readings and funny stories about the person's life |  |  |  | often *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | can | laughing | a way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | gerund | a way *not said here* | poems *= poem* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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): no change. **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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