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title: Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people who work for the funeral director. Who acts: Pallbearers, people. 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 clause.
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# The church funeral, sentence 14

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Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people who work for the funeral director.

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**Who acts:** Pallbearers, people · **What happens:** carry, be, work · **To what, where:** coffin, family

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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 (Pallbearers, people), 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:14
# text = Pallbearers carry the coffin; they may be family, friends or people who work for the funeral director.
# 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 ×2
1	Pallbearers	pallbearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	director	director	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **carry** | present | Pallbearers | the coffin and family and friends or people |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | may | Pallbearers *= pallbearer* | family and friends or people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | people |  |  |  |  | for the funeral director | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for director=Beneficiary |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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