--- title: Hymns are songs to God; at funerals they give comfort and hope; «The… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics description: Hymns are songs to God; at funerals they give comfort and hope; «The Lord's my shepherd», based on Psalm 23, is often sung. Who acts: Hymns. A sentence of the lesson «The church funeral» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/11/) [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/) / [The church funeral](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/) / 11 # The church funeral, sentence 11 Hymns are songs to God; at funerals they give comfort and hope; «The Lord's my shepherd», based on Psalm 23, is often sung. **Who acts:** Hymns · **What happens:** be, give, base, sing · **To what, where:** songs, God, comfort, funerals, shepherd, Psalm 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 (Hymns), 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:11 # text = Hymns are songs to God; at funerals they give comfort and hope; «The Lord's my shepherd», based on Psalm 23, is often sung. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hymns hymn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 parataxis _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 16 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Psalm psalm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 23 23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Hymns | songs | God | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | present | Hymns *= hymn* | comfort and hope | | funerals | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent comfort=Theme at funeral=Asset | | 3 | **base** | participle | | the Lord's shepherd *not said here* | | Psalm | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on psalm=Source | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive | | the Lord's shepherd | | | | often *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:11`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The church funeral, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/10/) - next →: [The church funeral, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/)