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title: «I am the resurrection and the life» are words of Jesus from John's… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics
description: «I am the resurrection and the life» are words of Jesus from John's Gospel, often said at the start of a funeral. Who acts: I, resurrection. 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
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# The church funeral, sentence 8

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«I am the resurrection and the life» are words of Jesus from John's Gospel, often said at the start of a funeral.

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**Who acts:** I, resurrection · **What happens:** be, say, start · **To what, where:** resurrection, words, Gospel, start, funeral · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, resurrection), 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:8
# text = «I am the resurrection and the life» are words of Jesus from John's Gospel, often said at the start of a funeral.
# 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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	resurrection	resurrection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | I | the resurrection and the life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the resurrection and the life | words |  | John's Gospel |  | of Jesus | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  | words *not said here* |  | the start of a funeral |  | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **start** |  |  | a funeral |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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