--- title: The Church of England uses funeral words from the Book of Common Pra… — The church funeral · tree and pragmatics description: The Church of England uses funeral words from the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship; to «commend» someone to God means to entrust them to God's care. Who acts: Church, God. 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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 (Church, God), 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:9 # text = The Church of England uses funeral words from the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship; to «commend» someone to God means to entrust them to God's care. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Church Church PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 Common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Prayer prayer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Worship worship PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 commend commend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 csubj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 entrust entrust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | the Church of England | funeral words | | the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **commend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | someone | God | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **entrust** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | words *= word* | God's care | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to care=Recipient | | 5 | **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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/8/) - next →: [The church funeral, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/62-the-church-funeral/)