--- title: A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, talk and sha… — Burial, cremation, the wake and the grave · tree and pragmatics description: A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, talk and share stories; it helps people grieve together. Who acts: wake, people, funeral. 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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 (wake, people, funeral), 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:10 # text = A wake is a gathering after a funeral where people eat, talk and share stories; it helps people grieve together. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wake wake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gathering gathering NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 13 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 grieve grieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 together together ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a wake | a gathering | | | after a funeral | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | people | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **talk** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **share** | present | people *not said here* | stories | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | present | funeral | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **grieve** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:10`. **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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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. 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