--- title: Picture the cemetery after Grandad's funeral: the coffin goes gently… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics description: Picture the cemetery after Grandad's funeral: the coffin goes gently down on straps, the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection», and Ellie throws a little handful of soil as her goodbye. Who acts: you, coffin, vicar, Ellie. 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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 (you, coffin, vicar, Ellie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:1 # text = Picture the cemetery after Grandad's funeral: the coffin goes gently down on straps, the vicar says «earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection», and Ellie throws a little handful of soil as her goodbye. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cemetery cemetery NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 12 gently gently ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 straps strap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 vicar vicar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 31 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 resurrection resurrection NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 throws throw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 as as ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cemetery | | | after Grandad's funeral | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cemetery=Theme | | 2 | **go down** | present | the coffin | | | straps | | down, gently *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strap=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar | earth | earth and ashes to ashes and dust to dust in sure hope of the resurrection | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent earth=Topic to earth=Recipient | | 4 | **throw** | present | Ellie | a little handful of soil | | | | as Ellie's goodbye | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | | 5 | **hope** *in a quote* | | the resurrection | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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:063-burial-cremation-the-wake-and-the-grave.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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